On proposed completion in 2030, the Great Green Wall is expected to be the largest living structure on the planet, three times the size of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.

That's according to scientists who have found that lichen in the Mojave Desert managed to survive for 3 months under levels ...

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 ...

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

This week, 150 trees throughout Carson City are being removed due to a continuing mass die-off and ongoing vegetation decline ...

For Georgia-born Stebin Horne, a love of South Africa has gone beyond an obsession; it's an inspiration for fostering a ...

“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 ...

The founding story of Palm Desert remains exceptional for its mythic qualities and the efforts of one of the community’s founders, Clifford Henderson, to make it so.

Can the vast and sparsely populated African country translate its renewable power potential into national development?