Over 70% of Kuwait's land, approximately 11,300 sq km, is classified as deteriorated or desertified. The Environment Public Authority (EPA) is executing a national strategy through Vision 2035, aiming ...

A decades-long effort to plant shrubs and trees around the Taklamakan Desert, China’s largest desert and one of the driest ...

One month ahead of the U.N. Climate Change Conference, COP26, new testimony from Mali has laid bare how climate risks threaten communities in conflict zones. The International Committee of the Red ...

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Scientists made a surprising wildlife discovery in the world’s driest desert. Tiny soil-dwelling nematodes are not just surviving but thriving high in the Chilean mountains. The findings suggest that ...

Tree rings going back 800 years are giving researchers at the University of Arizona a window into how climate change could expand the planet’s most extreme deserts, including the Sonoran, which ...

Many deserts face worsening droughts, but India's Thar Desert has become 38% greener in the past 20 years due to increased rainfall and expanding agriculture in the region, according to a new study.

As climate change accelerates, its impacts are being felt most acutely by those who have contributed the least to the problem: the world’s poorest and most marginalized people. A recent report by the ...

Saudi Arabia, like many other countries, faces significant environmental challenges stemming from rapid population growth and ...