Farmers in Yuma are known for their remarkable efficiency in water use—a vital trait in a desert climate. Their success demonstrates that with the right technology and management, desert agriculture ...

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Rebuilding Syria is proving a potentially lethal task, as streets and farmland are seeded with unexploded land mines – with ...

At the end of a dusty road in southern Israel, beyond a Bedouin village of unfinished houses and the shiny dome of a mosque, ...

The village of Dolton, which is where you may find yourself if you’re traveling south through Chicago and run out of Chicago to travel through, which we ...

Pilu or Salvadora persica is a resilient medicinal shrub valued for its dental and ecological benefits. Thriving in arid, saline soils, it supports dryland farming and desert greening. Its roots, used ...

Witness an astonishing transformation where Saudi Arabia defies its harsh desert climate to create vast, fertile farmland oases using state-of-the-art irrigation, ancient fossil water, and ...

Society A desert-like area is forming in Central Hungary where tropical, subtropical plants are becoming dominant We wrote before about the drying out of the so-called Sand-Ridge, a huge, more than 10 ...

As regulations addressing target semi-volatile organics in soil matrices continue to push for increasingly lower action levels, laboratories are required to examine preparation workflows to optimize ...

Explore the remarkable survival strategies of Homo erectus in extreme desert conditions. Discover how they thrived in harsh environments one million years ago.

Due to their low precipitation rates, arid regions are major sources of atmospheric dust. In addition to its direct effect on surrounding air quality, excessive presence of airborne dust affects both ...