An international team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has ...

By Leonie Joubert Sometimes words fall hopelessly short. This might explain the silences between the two botanists as their ...

Unusual structures of unknown origin discovered in desert rocks have been documented in a new study. In the desert regions of ...

Whether it's the dusty landscapes of Africa or parts of the United States ... to deal with conditions they're ill-prepared for. Desertification goes beyond the realm of deserts expanding.

Africa’s mega-project to help combat climate change, desertification, and land degradation has seen positive strides. The project will see a 4,722-mile green wall that will aim to restore 100 ...

Whenever we think of the Sahara Desert, the images that come to mind are vast stretches of sand and extreme dryness. But do you know that the desert was not always this arid and once had water and ...

Residents, seemingly resigned to their fate, speak of the desert as an inevitable destiny ... mosques and libraries store some of West Africa’s oldest Quranic texts and manuscripts, covering ...

USUALLY the soil is regarded as something particularly stable, but this stability is almost wholly due to its normal covering of vegetation. There is always a danger that if the cover of ...