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

Farmer Hadi Saheb cannot wait to see his wheat fields flourish in the heart of the desert after he tapped into groundwater ...

A study led by Prof. Amos Frumkin from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem sheds new light on one of humanity's most ...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is 80% desert. Only 0.7% of land is arable and it imports more than 90% of its food. Unsurprisingly, the oil-rich nation has proved fertile ground for companies ...

A new study reconstructing the Arabian Peninsula’s ancient past adds clues to how early humans left the African continent.

Fertile islands are key ... accomplish project objectives. Major desert restoration techniques include: planting and seeding, managing water, manipulating soil properties, and providing cover.

95 percent of the food we eat is grown in the fertile topsoil that is ... of Spain is at risk of becoming desert. But perhaps the biggest threat to soil is intensive farming.

In Ancient Times: A History of the Early World, originally intended as a high school textbook, Breasted wrote: “The earliest home of men in this great arena of Western Asia is…a kind of cultivable ...

Back in the UAE, communities living nearby have already benefited from the ability to turn the desert around them into fertile land. The arrival of the produce grown using nanoclay proved ...