Our later Stone Age people or Neolithic people were farmers. This later period covers from about 4,000 BC to 2,000 BC, which ...

Desertification is a process of land degradation in which fertile land becomes increasingly dry and unproductive, eventually transforming into desert-like conditions. The Algerian steppe, due to its ...

Central Asia’s land, water, and ecosystems face extreme pressure from farming, population growth, and pollution.

Clouds start to build in the early afternoon and the air becomes sweet with the promise of rain. The monsoon season is ramping up across the southwestern United States. Throughout New Mexico ...

The monsoon relies on the buildup of summer heat and shifting wind direction, which helps funnel moisture from distant bodies of water to areas where rain is sparse.

Monsoon season brings the promise of rain for the arid southwestern US Clouds start to build in the early afternoon and the air becomes sweet with the promise of rain ...

In Las Vegas, monsoon season muscled its way in on the first day of July with bursts of powerful thunderstorms and dust storms that toppled power lines, uprooted trees and snapped utility poles ...

China plans to install 253 GW of solar capacity and restore more than 670,000 hectares of degraded land by 2030 under a large-scale desert PV program in its northern and northwestern regions. It ...

Arid and semi-arid areas cover approximately 45% of the terrestrial land area and support over 2 billion people. The region's ecosystems are extremely fragile and vulnerable to global climate change ...