New research from UA’s School of Natural Resources and the Environment indicates the desert heat may be cooling down, but this isn’t a positive thing for the environment. Austin Rutherford, one of the ...

In recent years, Mongolia has made major leaps in managing and improving its environmental policies. Mongolia’s heavy dependence on its natural resource extraction along with misuse has created ...

“Climate is impacting the life of Sicily very strongly,” says Gerardo Diana, a Sicilian farmer, as he gazes at his fields of wheat and beans, which have been completely decimated by a two-year drought ...

The Sahara Desert has expanded by approximately ten percent since 1920, according to comprehensive research analyzing rainfall data across Africa from 1920 to 2013. This expansion varies significantly ...

Yet more than one billion people, one-sixth of the Earth's population, actually live in desert regions. Deserts cover more than one-fifth of the Earth's land area, and they are found on every ...

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New research published in the journal Remote Sensing of the Environment confirms, yet again, what regular readers of Climate Change Weekly and Heartland’s other climate change products have long known ...

The driest desert, now adorned with a breathtaking array of flowers, is a sight to behold. This unexpected transformation, sparked by the rare occurrence of rains in North Chile, has turned a portion ...

Dust and dust storms poses a threat to Californians' health, the state's agriculture sector and more. Among what the report explores is how climate change is expected to increase dust storms in ...