Researchers are unraveling the complex symbiotic relationship between fungi and the saguaro cactus, which is increasingly at ...
ATACAMA, Chile (Reuters) -In Chile's arid Atacama, the driest desert in the world, scientists are studying a small, resilient flower that could hold genetic clues to help crops withstand worsening ...
India has added the Cold Desert Biosphere Reserve as in its network of United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural ...
Experts describe 2025 as among the Atacama’s wettest in recent years, with some high-elevation borderlands receiving up to 60 ...
Cornell researchers have contributed to a multi-institutional study of how the nomadic Turkana people of northern Kenya—who ...
RED DESERT — Wildlife biologist Tom Christiansen stood atop a ridge and gestured to a sea of sagebrush stretching south for miles before giving way to open patches of ancient seabed dirt and the vast ...
Floods, droughts, hotter weather and a desert locust invasion — the impacts of climate change are hitting Africa hard, and worse is ahead for the region’s food supplies, economy and health, the U.N.