Thanks to increased accessibility to water and energy, the Thar Desert is now the most populated desert on Earth.

Researchers studied the DNA of two 7,000-year-old naturally mummified individuals excavated in the Takarkori rock shelter in southwestern Libya.

But even small changes in temperature or precipitation could drastically impact plants and animals living in the desert ... cover a quarter of Earth. Human activities such as firewood gathering ...

This research highlights the impact of climate cycles on landscapes and human societies. The Empty Quarter (Rub' al-Khali), the vast desert of the Arabian Peninsula, was not always an arid landscape.

Sometimes it can seem like our lives are very separate from nature…That the natural world is a distant rain forest, a far-away desert ... of it by humans was having a negative impact on the ...

Researchers from several University of California campuses have collaborated to create a report on dust in California, a ...

Festival au Desert started in 2001 ... in late February 2022. IMPACT's work derives from linked beliefs in 1) the power of arts and culture to contribute to the will, knowledge and capacity of humans ...

An international team including UNIGE reveals that the Arabian Peninsula desert once hosted a vast lake and rivers, which ...

They were naturally mummified, representing the oldest-known mummified human remains. “At the time, Takarkori was a lush savannah with a nearby lake, unlike today’s arid desert landscape ...