Arid and semi-arid lands represent 41% of the ... They found that dust and pollutants generated in the Taklamakan and Gobi deserts not only change the climate in northwest China through cloud ...

As they say, life finds a way. Microbial life has been discovered existing 13 feet beneath the surface of Earth’s most ...

It is in semi-arid regions, where long periods of drought may be followed by torrential rains, that soil erosion becomes an active danger.

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 ...

Desert plants may have to go without fresh water for years at a time. Some plants have adapted to the arid climate by growing long roots that tap water from deep underground. Other plants ...

For a plant, life in Argentina’s Monte Desert is hard enough. Daily temperatures can fluctuate dramatically; it rarely rains, and there are few nutrients in the parched soil for a hungry plant. To add ...

In some cases global warming is predicted to increase the area of deserts ... salinization to improve arid lands, find new ways to rotate crops to protect the fragile soil, and plant sand-fixing ...

Except it wasn’t so simple – these melons were only possible with the help of liquid “nanoclay”, a soil recovery technology ... its proximity to the arid desert. Its productivity had ...

Desertification close desertificationThe spread of desert conditions in arid regions due to human activities ... into desert as the quality of the soil declines over time. Many countries around ...

Except it wasn’t so simple – these melons were only possible with the help of liquid “nanoclay”, a soil recovery technology ... its proximity to the arid desert. Its productivity had ...

Mar. 19, 2025 — In the desert areas of Namibia, Oman, and Saudi Arabia, research work has revealed unusual structures that are probably due to the activity of an unknown microbiological life form.