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 ...

Athol Fugard, South Africa’s foremost dramatist, who explored the pervasiveness of apartheid in such searing works as 'The ...

A powerful dust storm swept across Texas this week, turning the sky an eerie orange. Strong winds carried dust from West ...

Athol Fugard, South Africa's foremost dramatist who explored the pervasiveness of apartheid in such searing works as "The ...

South Africa “has lost one of its greatest literary and theatrical icons, whose work shaped the cultural and social landscape ...

They are widespread in semiarid areas of northern and eastern Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and northern South Africa. Of historic importance, this snake has long been represented in ancient ...

Fugard was born in Middleburg in the semiarid Karoo on June 11, 1932. His father was an English-Irish man whose joy was playing jazz piano. His mother was Afrikaans, descended from South Africa ...

“Further, the state is located in a subhumid to semiarid environment that is vulnerable to changes in water availability resulting from global climate change,” state climatologist John Nielsen ...

These provide a solid germ plasm foundation for restoring 2.2 million hectares of arid and semiarid land. The company is also ...