Man's impact on vegetation becomes more marked in arid regions than under the better-known more humid conditions of northern Europe. In the semi-desert of northern Sudan, when the vegetation is ...

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

The road to the Tree of Life in Bahrain feels like a wrong turn, with one long stretch of the Sakhir Desert folding into ...

A massive fire burning through the desert in California and southern Nevada has scorched tens of thousands of acres in a biodiverse national preserve and torched its iconic Joshua trees. The York Fire ...

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The steady decline of plants in Southern California’s portion of the Sonoran Desert — which includes Anza-Borrego Desert State Park — is caused by climate change-driven heat increases, according to a ...

Sand, sun, stones, and heat — that's probably what you picture when you think of a desert landscape. But, if you've seen one desert, you haven't seen them all. The planet comprises a wide variety of ...

David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...

The U.S. is home to four major desert systems, and the largest encompasses a national park of the same name. But it might not be where you expect. Deserts are places with low humidity and little ...

The two city-owned golf courses at Desert Willow Golf Resort in Palm Desert opened in 1997, and like most courses of that age, they needed some tender loving care. “Twenty-eight years of desert ...