Four football fields of land degrade into desert every second. That equates to an area almost as large as Ethiopia each year.

Where rain falls regularly, it can transform a desert, turning it into one of earth’s most productive landscapes – grasslands. Grasslands support the biggest concentrations of large animals on ...

U ntil the 1960s, the Aral Sea was one of the largest inland reservoirs of water in the world. Over seven decades, the lake ...

Many deserts face worsening droughts, but India's Thar Desert has become 38% greener in the past 20 years due to increased ...

Mineral formations in caves reveal recurring periods of humidity in the Arabian Desert over the last 8 million years.

The vast desert of the Arabian Peninsula was not always an arid landscape. A recent study reveals that this region was once home to a vast lake and river system. These favorable conditions fostered ...

Desert sand is desert sand; you need to add more to it,” explained Welch. HyveGeo first experimented with turning microalgae into biochar, before realizing it was “like growing saffron and ...

The annual green-to-golden transition of San Diego’s wild grasslands starts during late ... The Anza-Borrego Desert State Park flowers will be at their annual best this month, beginning with ...