desiccation

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Previous work has shown that the hardy microbe can withstand radiation and desiccation, making it a candidate for interplanetary survival.

From Science Daily • Mar. 3, 2026

There are two primary causes of the desiccation: rising temperatures unleashed by using oil and gas, and widespread overpumping of water that took millennia to accumulate underground.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2025

This covering protects them from predators, desiccation and pesticides.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 6, 2024

But at that time, the gland only made a fatty acid solvent similar to the hydrocarbons that almost all insects make in their cuticles to prevent desiccation and to communicate chemically.

From Scientific American • Sep. 27, 2023

Might there not be an even more elaborate effort by an older and wiser species, courageously battling the advance of desiccation on the red planet?

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan