Cultivated land past 40% sharply amplifies drought and heatwave risk in northern China’s agro-pastoral ecotone
A study of northern China's Horqin Sandy Land finds that once cultivated land exceeds about 40% of the landscape, drought ...
Tag: evapotranspiration
Cropland water use efficiency hits a tipping point as air dries
A study of China's Songhua River Basin and global cropland flux sites finds that ecosystem water use efficiency declines nonlinearly ...
Stage-based irrigation raises chickpea yields in arid Türkiye
A two-year field experiment in southeastern Türkiye found that supplemental irrigation increased chickpea grain yield, particularly when flowering and grain ...
Graph-Based AI Model Predicts Potato Crop Water Needs with High Accuracy in Canada
A probabilistic dynamic graph deep learning model developed on Prince Edward Island predicted potato crop coefficients with R² values up ...
Green Roof Model Overhaul Slashes Heat Flux Errors by More Than 75 Percent
Researchers rebuilt the green-roof physics in the WRF weather model and cut simulated ground heat flux errors from over 100 ...
Satellite study links Grain for Green afforestation on China’s Loess Plateau to carbon gains and water pressures
A regional satellite-observation study links Grain for Green implementation on the Loess Plateau with 53.2% forest-cover growth and 24.4% higher ...
Forests and Grasslands Tell Different Ecological Stories in Northern China
A new study of northern Hebei, China, reveals that forest and grassland gains and losses produce unequal and sometimes reversed ...
Drones Reveal Hidden Crop Water Stress Weeks Before It Shows in the Leaves
Evapotranspiration sits at the intersection of the water and energy cycles, and its accurate quantification has long challenged hydrologists and ...
Plants Keep Losing Water at Night, and Space Farming Can’t Afford to Ignore It
A time-normalized analysis of mizuna grown in a spaceflight prototype root module shows nighttime water loss running at nearly half ...
Satellites Reveal Near-Total Collapse of Irrigation in Ukraine’s Kakhovka Dam Zone
A new satellite-based machine learning study shows that irrigated farmland in Ukraine's Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts has collapsed by about ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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