Morocco has lost two-thirds of its oases – lush, fertile areas in the desert – in just a single century. Take the town of ...

Leave behind the familiar fields and open roads of the Imperial Valley, and you soon encounter a desert landscape that feels ...

Desertification is a form of land degradation by which fertile land loses much of its biological — and economic — productivity, and becomes desert. Today, up to 40% of the world's land is ...

Here, the extreme dry sands of the desert meet the fertile silt-laden soils along the Nile—a river that provides a source of life for the entire nation and a good part of the African continent.

Like something from the science fiction film "Dune", the "world's biggest mining dredger" has been swallowing acre after acre ...