Arid and semi-arid lands represent 41% of the ... studied the role of dust aerosols in regional climate and, in a world first, revealed the mechanism by which dust shapes the dry climate in ...

Scientists at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have developed and combined a new nanoplastic and ...

What’s in a word? Well, if it’s the word dirt or soil, it turns out, it’s a lot. While most people, myself included, often ...

Fragile highland ecosystems showed low resilience to fire, which renders them more vulnerable to long-term degradation.

The cyclical warming of the central Pacific may be causing droughts and floods, but in the vast desert of north Chile it has caused a vibrant explosion of flowers One of the driest places on Earth ...

At 450 sampling locations spanning 21 million crop acres, it’s the world’s largest soil archive. This unique find is likely the oldest collection, as few soil archives exceed 40 years.

The fruit has its origin in the Kalahari desert and mostly grows in dry or semi-arid places of the world. The fruits have ... adaptable to a wide range of soils and will grow in both sandy or ...