The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans ...

But even small changes in temperature or precipitation could drastically impact plants and animals living in the desert. In some cases global warming is predicted to increase the area of deserts ...

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 ...

The desert that we see today in Arabia was once a region that repeatedly underwent "green" periods in the past, as a result ...

Occasional rainfall will keep this water source topped up. At first glance the desert environment might look barren and uninhabitable. But in between the sand dunes is a hidden world of wildlife ...

The refugees have taken the training we’ve given them and made the project their own, growing things we never thought would be possible in the desert environment using recycled materials. It's having ...

During the winter months they live lower down the valley in cave dwellings carved out of the soft rock (kamar), an unusual form of housing in a dry, desert environment. This cultural landscape is an ...

Riverside County supervisors cleared the way for a 1.2 million-square-foot warehouse in Thousand Palms. Environmental groups ...