India’s Thar Desert, one of the hottest and driest regions on Earth, is undergoing a surprising transformation. Over the past ...

The other piece of the puzzle is climate change, which has caused increasing monsoon precipitation in the region. The Thar ...

Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar-led research suggests climate change, increased monsoon rainfall and expanded ...

Once thought resistant to invasion, regional deserts are losing native plants to aggressive weedy species like Saharan ...

To understand how this happened, the team analyzed human and climate activity within the region during this period. They found that the desert experienced a 64 percent increase in monsoon ...

A new study reconstructing the Arabian Peninsula’s ancient past adds clues to how early humans left the African continent.

As you can see from the climate graph, plants and animals in the desert have to cope with very little water. The climate is very hot. Summer day time temperatures can exceed 40°C. However ...

It’s hard to green the desert. Take China, or Africa’s Sahel region, for example ... And through growing algae, it says it can remove climate-warming carbon dioxide from the atmosphere ...

6,000 years ago, the region experienced a sharp decline ... the rapid transformation of the Arabian Peninsula’s desert landscape, as well as in shaping population movements. This narrative of climate ...

Many deserts face worsening droughts, but India's Thar Desert has become 38% greener in the past 20 years due to increased rainfall and expanding agriculture in the region, according to a new study.