All posts tagged: Drought

Say goodbye to the sex drought! What the Danes can teach us about making more love | Sex

Say goodbye to the sex drought! What the Danes can teach us about making more love | Sex

Published by Sam Flores

Copenhagen on the Thursday before Valentine’s Day is intoxicatingly romantic. That’s not hyperbole – you could breathe in and be drunk on it. The canals have frozen over, which only happens about once every 13 years, and couples are skating on them. You can see cosy bars from miles away because they’re strung with fairy lights – apparently not just a Christmas thing here. Everyone is beautiful. But none of that comes close to explaining why young Danes in Denmark, unlike gen Z across the developed world, are still having sex. Winter isn’t even their frisky season. “You feel the atmosphere in the springtime,” says Ben, 35, half-British, half Danish. His friend Anna, also 35, originally Hungarian, says: “Post-hibernation fever, you can feel the sexual energy. Everyone is on. Everyone swims in the canals, a lot of the women will be topless – they’re like herrings.” (Which is to say: they are typically Danish, they love the water and they don’t wear clothes … I think.) Ben and Anna are millennials, of course, rather than …

Ben Ogden describes ending U.S. medal drought

Ben Ogden describes ending U.S. medal drought

Published by Sam Flores

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Spray on polymer shield helps plants fight bacteria and survive drought

Spray on polymer shield helps plants fight bacteria and survive drought

Published by Jenni Sidey

On a warming planet, your food supply depends on crops that can survive heat, drought and fast spreading disease. Now engineers at the University of California San Diego have built a spray on shield for plants that could help them endure both bacterial infections and dry spells. Published in ACS Materials Letters, the work points to a future where farmers might protect fields with a simple mist, not just heavy chemicals. It also hints at a new way to tap into plants’ own defenses rather than replacing them. Why Plants Need a New Kind of Armor Bacterial diseases already cause huge crop losses worldwide. Gram negative and Gram positive bacteria trigger wilt, blight, speck and canker in many major crops. As temperatures rise, these pathogens are moving into new regions, so fields meet more unfamiliar threats each season. A graphical abstract of the study. (CREDIT: ACS Materials Letters) At the same time, drought is hitting farms more often and more intensely. When plants are thirsty, they weaken and become easier targets for infection. That double …

Chile’s megadrought is dealing a severe and long-lasting blow to their glacier ecosystems

Chile’s megadrought is dealing a severe and long-lasting blow to their glacier ecosystems

Published by Jenni Sidey

The high mountains of central Chile look solid and eternal, but their ice is in trouble. For fifteen years, the country has endured a stubborn megadrought, and glaciers have quietly carried much of the burden. They have melted faster to keep rivers flowing and taps running. A new study warns that by the end of this century, that backup system may break when you most need it. An international team led by researchers in Austria, Switzerland and Chile set out a stark question: what if a drought as long and severe as today’s megadrought hits again near 2100? Their answer is blunt. The glaciers of the Southern Andes will be too worn down to cushion such a shock. Chile’s Long Thirst Chileans are used to periods of dryness. In the past, droughts came every five or six years and lasted one or two years. People could wait for rain to return. This time, relief never came. “Climate scientists only realized in 2015 that the unending drought in Chile was really a big thing,” says Francesca …