Tiny soil animals survive harsh desert conditions, revealing hidden life and climate driven survival strategies underground.

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A relentless giant is stirring in North Africa. The Sahara Desert, already the size of the continental United States, grows larger every single year. What sounds like something from ancient geological ...

For many, planting trees has become synonymous with fighting climate change. But in the hot and arid desert, it isn't that simple. However, desert landscapes can also serve as carbon sinks, absorbing ...

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 study. Rising ...

Desert storms that have sent massive plumes of dust across the oceans may have a small but significant effect on global temperatures, scientists say. New research found the microscopic particles ...

The same climate changes known to be reshaping mountain ecosystems in places like the Alps and Yosemite also are driving alarming new patterns in the Sonoran Desert near Palm Springs, according to the ...

In the Mojave Desert, small mammals are weathering the hotter conditions triggered by climate change much better than birds, finds a new study. Using computer models, the study team showed that small ...

Deep in the high desert of Northern California, thousands of armored vehicles sit in neat, sunbaked rows, their combined ...