There is a trend of growing plants that take a lot of care to flourish in the desert. These include tropical or subtropical plants for permaculture “food forests” like avocado and sapote and tender ...

The nutrients animals ingest are allocated to serve different functions. We used contrasting C stable isotope signatures of dominant vegetation types in a North American subtropical desert to decipher ...

Imagine watching a football field of fertile land transform into barren desert every four seconds. That's the staggering pace ...

When you think of deserts, you might envision isolated wastelands confined to single nations. Yet the world's most massive arid regions defy political boundaries, sprawling across continents and ...

If a subtropical storm remains over warm water for several days, it may eventually become fully tropical and be called a tropical storm National Hurricane Center began naming subtropical storms in ...

We are in the midst of hurricane season, so the formation of tropical systems in October is not unusual. However, Subtropical Storm Karenformed at a relatively high latitude for something with ...

MIAMI (CBSMIAMI) -- You may have heard meteorologists talk about a subtropical storm or about an extratropical storm. And you've heard about tropical storms but how does one distinguish these types of ...