Farmers in the arid Southwest depend on Colorado River water delivered downstream from Hoover Dam. Farmers in the arid Southwest depend on Colorado River water delivered downstream from Hoover Dam ...

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In Western Sahara, a small green revolution is being led by women in the harshest of conditions. Their goal: to build a network of gardens in the desert.

The study, titled “Greening of the Thar Desert”, analyzed satellite images taken between 2001 and 2023, which shows clear growth of vegetation on Thar dessert.

Hidden away in the darkest corners of Earth’s atmosphere, a faint green airglow quietly paints the night sky, far from the ...

The picture shows a cave in the north of Saudi Arabia. The Saharo-Arabian Desert experienced repeated wetter periods over the past eight million years. Wetter conditions favoured the exchange of ...

The Taklimakan Desert in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region covers 337,600 square kilometers and its circumference measures 3,046 kilometers, making it the largest desert in China ...