Here in Arches, the air is alive with different scents. The jagged, crisp aroma of pinyon pines and junipers cuts through the ...

The seed bank in Joshua Tree aims to collect seeds representing all of California's approximately 2,400 desert plant species.

In the northern region of the Sonoran Desert, surrounded by five mountain ranges and 350 days of sunshine, lies Tucson where ...

As the planet continues to warm, worst-case scenario projections suggest up to 5 billion people could live in drylands by the century’s end, grappling with depleted soils, dwindling ...

The Australian outback is one of the wildest places on Earth. A vast void of deserts and semi-arid wilderness, it stretches across about 80% of the country’s interior — an area roughly equivalent to ...

* One of China's landmark ecological projects is the Three-North Shelterbelt Forest Program, which has added 32 million hectares to afforestation areas and treated 85.3 million hectares of degraded ...

The snow is snowing, the wind is blowing, admittedly not in Sydney, but Seoul has been blanketed by the heaviest snowfall in ...

Intolerable heat. Unsurvivable storms. Inescapable floods. In 2024, billions of people across the world faced climatic ...

Brutal Soviet-era farming practices severely damaged the Aral Sea's delicate ecosystem. Now ecologists are planting saplings ...

Desertification has become one of the most severe environmental challenges facing humanity as it leads to more sand and dust ...

This 2012 satellite photo shows a series of giant windblown ridges, known as yardangs, and a group of towering sand dunes at ...

Wildlife conservationists are worried that if more of the Arizona-Mexico border wall is built, more animals will struggle to move around and find resources.