Scientists from northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region are working to help African countries transform the sandy ...

URUMQI, June 16 (Xinhua) -- Scientists from northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region are working to help African ...

On proposed completion in 2030, the Great Green Wall is expected to be the largest living structure on the planet, three ...

Learn why the idea of an ancient African drying period is now being challenged and what this means for the story of the first ...

There are a lot of words used to describe how plants look or smell — think fragrant, prickly, tall or climbing. But there are ...

As native trees mature, they provide shelter for lower layers of desert vegetation and the local bugs, reptiles, birds and mammals who love them. Rule No. 1: Make them feel at home with native ...

A study led by researchers from Brown University finds that rainfall patterns across northern Africa remained largely stable ...

Diving deeper, we explore some of the world's desert regions and highlight what we consider to be some of the most breathtaking landscapes.

Small bands of Homo sapiens made a few failed forays leaving our home continent before the species finally managed to launch ...

Giant groundsels are rare plants that grow up to 30 feet (9 meters) tall. They are endemic to the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, a dormant volcano in Tanzania and Africa's tallest mountain.

“Estimates show some (ironwood) trees to be 800 years old, and it is likely that they live even longer,” says the “Desert Ironwood Primer,” a publication by the Arizona-Sonora Desert ...

From Africa’s Namib to South America’s Atacama, explore the world’s most iconic deserts—where silence roars and dunes dance.