Africa’s “Great Green Wall” initiative is a proposed 8,000-kilometer line of trees meant to hold back the Sahara from expanding southward. New climate simulations looking to both the region’s past and ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Succulents endemic to South Africa and Namibia are drying up and dying across the increasingly hot northern part of their range. Mongabay ...

Willem Jankowitz, his white beard trimmed into a goatee, peers at a small, purple flower through his bifocals. Everybody calls him “Doc.” His colleague, Peter Cunningham, is stretched out under their ...

If you're one of the many people who are into succulents, then you know that they are a great plant to have around. They're beautiful, they don't take up much space, and they're relatively easy to ...

Discover the fascinating journey of the Sahara Desert from a once-fertile region to a promising global hub for renewable energy. This video explores the historical roots of solar power in the Sahara, ...

New climate research warns that a wetter Sahara Desert could be in our future, as major rainfall increases and reduced Saharan dust threaten to intensify the Atlantic hurricane season, worsen drought ...

For the past 15 years, Philip Rundel has been developing this book through his long-term relationship and travels in deserts of the Southwestern United States, northern Chile and southern Africa. His ...

Researchers in China have assessed the impact of using up to 50% of the Sahara desert for the deployment of large scale solar power plants and have found these may impact the global cloud cover ...