Just below our feet, there is a universe that is busy, active and alive. Next Saturday, the High Desert Museum invites ...

An underground lab in Boulder City soon will become a hotbed of soil research in Southern Nevada and give the first in-depth look into desert soil, local researchers hope. The Desert Research ...

The sands of the desert are an important and forgotten storehouse of carbon dioxide taken from the world’s atmosphere, scientists heard today (Wednesday 2 April 2008) at the Society for General ...

The sands of the desert are an important and forgotten storehouse of carbon dioxide taken from the world's atmosphere. Sands like those in the Kalahari Desert of Botswana are full of cyanobacteria.

A rare bloom in Chile’s Atacama desert has briefly transformed one of the world’s driest places into a dazzling carpet of ...

Biocrusts play a crucial role in maintaining soil health and ecosystem sustainability, but they are currently under assault. Human activities including agriculture, urbanization, and off-road vehicle ...

Prolonged droughts followed by sudden bursts of rainfall – how do desert soil bacteria manage to survive such harsh conditions? This long-debated question has now been answered by an ERC project led ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The response of elements of the water balance of olive plants grown in desert farms to partiall irrigation was investigated. Among these are ...