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By Mongabay.com Succulents endemic to South Africa and Namibia are drying up and dying across the increasingly hot northern ...
For two decades, Foden, a specialist climate scientist at SANParks, South Africa’s national conservation ... but lethal, even to desert-adapted plants that have evolved many ways to survive ...
We now know that these images document a dramatic climate change across North Africa from the hyperarid desert it is today ... On the cause of abrupt vegetation collapse in North Africa during ...
For two decades, Foden, a specialist climate scientist at SANParks, South Africa’s national conservation ... but lethal, even to desert-adapted plants that have evolved many ways to survive ...
Far from being barren wastelands, deserts are biologically rich habitats with a vast array of animals and plants that have adapted to the harsh conditions there. Some deserts are among the planet ...
Mineral formations in caves reveal recurring periods of humidity in the Arabian Desert over the last 8 million years.
Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar-led research suggests climate change, increased monsoon rainfall and expanded ...
The researchers managed to extract DNA from the teeth and bones from two of the burials. They found that as humans migrated ...