An experiment in western China over the past four decades shows that it is possible to tame the expansion of desert lands ...

The African humid period reveals how northern Africa was dramatically wetter during the late Pleistocene and Holocene geologic epochs, when much of the Sahara desert was covered by grasses, trees and ...

Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar-led research suggests climate change, increased monsoon rainfall and expanded groundwater pumping have driven substantial vegetation growth in the Thar ...

Infrastructure development is a key driver of Indian forest loss Villagers in Chushul recently planted 150,000 trees in desert Experts say adding forest can hurt naturally treeless ecosystems CHUSHUL ...

KAUST researchers compared the land surface temperatures between different planted and bare soil environments around Saudi Arabia and found that vegetation provides an extra cooling effect. The ...