Succulents endemic to South Africa and Namibia are drying up and dying across the increasingly hot northern part of their ...

Grass fires burn far more American homes each year than forest fires. In southern Arizona, communities fight fires that never ...

A nasty wind rips across Cornell’s Kop one afternoon in October 2024, driving professor emeritus Timm Hoffman and his team to ...

Mineral formations in caves reveal recurring periods of humidity in the Arabian Desert over the last 8 million years.

In thousands of years to come, the Sahara will one day be full of life, vegetation, and vital water once again.

Without grass, Sinclair argued, Arizona’s native desert plants wouldn’t provide easy ... Buffelgrass, an invasive species from South Africa now at the center of Arizona’s invasive grass ...

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

Isotope analysis of limestone cave deposits indicates repeated humid periods in the Saharo-Arabian Desert over the past eight million years. The Saharo-Arabian Desert is one of the world’s largest ...

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 ...