When these lands ... Doherty Earth Observatory who has worked in the African Sahel. "The fact that some soil is not productive because you're in a drought doesn't mean that the desert has advanced ...

What’s in a word? Well, if it’s the word dirt or soil, it turns out, it’s a lot. While most people, myself included, often ...

the canal project has been hailed by supporters as a game-changer that will transform vast desert lands into fertile farmland. Munir praised Punjab, the most populous province, for its role as the ...

A s Earth continues to warm, more and more of the planet is becoming dry. A 2024 UN report found that in the last three decades, over three-fourths of all the world's land became drier than it had ...

The unlikely researcher, George Smith, made one of archaeology's most sensational finds when he ... scholars had managed to reassemble parts of some tablets, deciphering for the first time these ...

An international team of researchers, including scientists from UNIGE, has discovered that the Arabian Peninsula's desert was once shaped by a massive lake and a network of rivers. The Rub’ al-Khali, ...

Until the 1960s, the Aral Sea was one of the largest inland reservoirs of water in the world. Over seven decades, the lake first split into smaller lakes, until most of its original surface had ...

Reptiles, some of ... one of the most powerful bites among any wild animal, and its ability to kill large prey ensures it is an effective predator in the wild. Anaconda is the largest snake ...

If correct, (and some scientists do dispute the theory), the so-called Zanclean megaflood would be the largest single flood recorded on Earth. But extraordinary claims ... kilometre below today’s ...

The striking rock formations that look as if lifted straight from a Salvador Dalí painting make Salvador Dalí Desert, also known as Dalí Valley, an unmissable addition to your bucket list.

The new climate record agrees with evidence Petraglia has championed in other studies about Green Arabia, which suggest the entire band of deserts that separate most of Africa from Eurasia ...