Clearing Invasive Bush Could Soften Droughts in a Warming Ethiopia, Study Finds
A new modelling study of Ethiopia's Ganale Dawa River Basin shows that clearing encroaching woody vegetation can reduce agricultural drought ...
Tag: soil moisture
Satellite Soil Moisture Data Sharpens Watershed Models Without Sacrificing Streamflow Skill
A new study shows that calibrating watershed models with downscaled, bias-corrected satellite soil moisture data dramatically improves the representation of ...
When Dry Ground Turns Up the Heat: Inside Sweden’s 2018 Heatwave Feedback Loop
New modeling work shows that drying soils amplified Sweden's record 2018 heatwave for about 22 days through a soil moisture–temperature ...
Swiss Hail Seasons Leave Fingerprints in Winter Oceans and Snow
A 64-year reconstruction of Swiss hail days reveals that active hail seasons are driven by recurring large-scale circulation patterns and ...
Strip Tillage Boosts Maize Yields Nearly 48% in Ethiopia’s Dying Drylands
A two-year field trial in Ethiopia's Tigray region shows strip tillage raised maize yields by nearly 48 percent while dramatically ...
Drier Air Is Quietly Rewiring How the Planet Loses Water, 40-Year Global Analysis Reveals
A 40-year global analysis shows that rising vapor pressure deficit increases evapotranspiration across about 61 percent of land but suppresses ...
AI Peers Into the Black Box of Heatwaves and Reveals What Really Drives Them
An explainable AI framework has quantified how atmospheric circulation, soil moisture, and rising CO2 each contribute to summer heat extremes ...
Beneath the Pavement: City Soils Hide a Startlingly Diverse Bacterial World Shaped by Construction History
A detailed survey of street tree soils in Antwerp reveals over 1,800 bacterial genera and shows that construction history, not ...
Satellites and Super-Models Reveal the Hidden Rhythms of Western Canada’s Water
By combining GRACE satellite gravity data with a high-resolution groundwater–surface water model, researchers have decoded nearly two decades of water ...
Soil Moisture, Not Heat, Drives Carbon Loss from Mediterranean City Parks
A year of measurements in Madrid's parks shows that soil moisture, not temperature, controls CO2 emissions from Mediterranean urban soils, ...
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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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