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.Qosim Suleiman, Abdullah ...

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 ...

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

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.

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.

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

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