When Rain Falls Matters More Than How Much: New Index Tracks Drought Risk in Sudan’s Sorghum Belt
A nearly four-decade analysis of Sudan's Gedaref State shows that the internal structure of seasonal rainfall, including onset timing, dry ...
Tag: soil moisture
Plastic Mulch and Nitrogen Team Up to Boost Camelina Oil Yields in Drylands
A field study in western Iran shows that combining soil-surface plastic mulch with 120 kilograms of nitrogen per hectare significantly ...
Tiny Soil Worms Rewrite the Rules of Life on Arid Mountains
A study in China's Yuanjiang Dry-Hot Valley finds that soil nematode abundance rises with elevation and moisture, while nutrient chemistry ...
Machine Learning Reveals How Warming Penetrates Frozen Soils of Northeast China
A new interpretable machine learning study shows that warming in Northeast China's frozen soils decreases with depth, with longwave radiation, ...
Reeds Reveal Hidden Biochemical Tactics for Recycling Nutrients in Drying Wetlands
A study of Phragmites australis in arid Chinese marshes shows that soil moisture reshapes how the plant recycles specific phosphorus ...
Drought hits Spanish Scots pine hardest, but recovery tells a subtler story
A new study of Scots pine plantations in Spain, Romania and Northeast China shows that soil moisture limits growth in ...
Crop Rotation Alone Won’t Store More Soil Carbon, Landmark Farm Study Finds
A large on-farm study in China's North China Plain shows that diversified crop rotations only build soil organic carbon when ...
Rain, Not Just Heat, Decides How Alpine Plants Answer Warming on the Tibetan Plateau
A three-year experiment on the Qinghai–Xizang Plateau shows that precipitation and grassland degradation, not temperature alone, control how annual and ...
Wet soils and warm winds keep Yangtze heatwaves burning through the night
A new study shows that day–night compound heatwaves over the Yangtze River Basin follow a 10–30-day rhythm driven by pre-event ...
New Satellite Drought Index Reveals Hidden Future Drying Across China’s Loess Plateau
Scientists have fused three satellite-based drought indicators into a single comprehensive index that accurately tracks soil moisture across China's Loess ...
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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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