The Caatinga is the only biome found exclusively in Brazil and is home to the largest contiguous area of seasonally dry ...

Storm forecasting is traditionally based on studying atmospheric conditions but ground-breaking research that also looks at ...

The Atacama Desert in northern Chile is the driest hot desert in the world. Higher life forms are almost entirely absent, but the hyper-arid soil, rich in salts and sulfates, does harbor bacteria.

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 ...

Indonesia plans to clear forests roughly the size of Belgium to produce sugarcane-derived bioethanol, rice and other food ...

So, as you savor chocolate, remember the fragile ecosystems behind it. The price of cocoa in early 2025 was near its all-time high, due in part to dry conditions in Africa. Without urgent action to ...

Dry weather in much of Central and Eastern Europe has increased the likelihood of a drought year, and the risk to the grain ...

Agroecosystems are the living communities of soil, plants, and animals that constitute ... They are former prairies or forests or even arid areas that people converted to produce crops or raise ...

In arid and semi-arid climates, soil carbon sequestration can also occur from the conversion of CO 2 from air found in soil into inorganic forms such as secondary carbonates; however, the rate of ...

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 ...