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June 7, 2021 Researchers have used more than two decades of satellite-derived environmental data to form hypotheses about the possible foraging habitats of pre-contact Aboriginal peoples living in ...
July 20, 2022 Rising annual temperatures and dwindling yearly precipitation across the mid-latitudes of Central Asia have extended its desert climate 60 miles northward since the 1980s, says a recent ...
Mar. 9, 2022 New research shows how, after it rains, microbes in desert soil convert one form of pollution into another -- laughing ...
May 5, 2021 Rarely has the United States-Mexico border become the source of positive news of lately. However, a new study demonstrates it's one of the world's top biodiversity hotspots for bees. A ...
Dec. 14, 2020 Scientists have made important improvements to our understanding of how water moves through and gets stored in dry desert soils by refining an existing computer ...
May 19, 2023 New evidence for the presence of ancient lakes in some of the most arid regions of South Africa suggests that Stone Age humans may have been more widespread across the continent than previously ...
Feb. 3, 2021 In the Namib Desert in southwestern Africa, the Kuiseb River, an ephemeral river which is dry most of the year, plays a vital role to the region. It provides most of the vegetation to the area and ...
Apr. 18, 2022 A new study shows it's not how much extra water you give your plants, but when you give it that counts. Researchers observed that in summer, plants grow more when given extra water, in addition ...
May 6, 2021 Researchers found that to live in hotter more desert-like surroundings, and exist without water, there is more than one genetic mechanism allowing animals to adapt. This is important not only for ...
Mar. 31, 2021 A new study details how the Indian Summer Monsoon is supercharged by atmospheric dust particles swept up by winds from deserts in the Middle ...