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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

For Gila monsters that live in the warming Mojave Desert ... While climate change might create some better habitats, the lizards could be left behind in regions that become harder to tolerate ...

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 ...