Dry soils in northern Mexico may trigger episodes of simultaneous drought and heat wave hundreds of miles away in the southwestern United States, such as Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, according to a ...

Prolonged droughts followed by sudden bursts of rainfall -- how do desert soil bacteria manage to survive such harsh conditions? This long-debated question has now been answered by microbiologists.

A sweeping survey of rhizosphere soils from four Chinese deserts shows that rare and abundant bacterial taxa around the ...

On the surface, the arid expanses of the Mojave Desert may seem inhospitable and largely removed from the global carbon cycle. But beneath the surface, its mineral-rich soils are running a carbon ...

A field trial in arid sandy land shows that mixing crushed alfalfa and ryegrass residues into topsoil slows infiltration, ...

YUMA, AZ (AZFamily) — Extreme heat is creating unprecedented challenges for Arizona farmers, but a new scientific initiative in Yuma is working directly in the fields to help growers protect their ...

Newswise — Prolonged droughts followed by sudden bursts of rainfall – how do desert soil bacteria manage to survive such harsh conditions? This long-debated question has now been answered by an ERC ...

Prolonged droughts followed by sudden bursts of rainfall—how do desert soil bacteria manage to survive such harsh conditions? This long-debated question has now been answered by an ERC project led by ...