Informations et ressources scientifiques
sur le développement des zones arides et semi-arides

• Microbial heat islands found in the desert

  ScienceDaily (January 20, 2016)

• International research finds aridity will impact carbon storage, plant productivity

  Phys.org/news (JANUARY 29, 2016 )

• Southwest sliding into a new normal : Drier conditions. Weather patterns that bring rain becoming less frequent (USA)

  ScienceDaily (February 4, 2016)

• Better water management could halve the global food gap

  ScienceDaily (February 15, 2016)

• Enhanced levels of carbon dioxide are likely cause of global dryland greening

  ScienceDaily (February 16, 2016)

• Adapted Trombe wall now used for both building heating, cooling

  ScienceDaily (February 24, 2016)

• Pulling water from thin air : Inspired by a desert beetle, cactus and pitcher plant, researchers design a new material to collect water droplets

  ScienceDaily (February 24, 2016)

• Inspired by a desert beetle, cactus and pitcher plant, researchers design a new material to collect water droplets

  Phys.org/news (FEBRUARY 24, 2016 )

• Grasslands across North America will face higher summer temperatures and widespread drought by the end of the century

  ScienceDaily (February 29, 2016)

• Drought in Eastern Mediterranean worst of past 900 years

  ScienceDaily (March 1, 2016)

• NASA finds drought in Eastern Mediterranean worst of past 900 years

  EurekAlert (1-Mar-2016)

• Global warming increases rain in world’s driest area

  ScienceDaily (March 8, 2016)

• Science can now link climate change with some extreme weather events

  ScienceDaily (March 11, 2016)

• Desert cactus purifies contaminated water for aquaculture, drinking and more

  ScienceDaily (March 14, 2016)

• ’Fairy circles’ discovered in Australia

  ScienceDaily (March 15, 2016)

• Water flow in Mediterranean rivers to fall by 34 percent by the end of the century, study predicts

  ScienceDaily (March 17, 2016)

• Climate change threatens already volatile Urmia Lake (Iran)

  ScienceDaily (April 22, 2016)

• Origin of dromedary camel domestication discovered

  ScienceDaily (May 9, 2016)

• Hornbills in the Kalahari desert may keep cool by losing heat through their beaks

  Phys.org/news (MAY 18, 2016)

• A ‘Sixth Sense’ for Humidity Helps Insects Stay Out of Climatic Trouble

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