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June 7, 2021 —Researchers have used more than two decades of satellite-derived environmental data to form hypotheses about the possible foraging habitats of pre-contact Aboriginal peoples living in ...
July 20, 2022 —Rising annual temperatures and dwindling yearly precipitation across the mid-latitudes of Central Asia have extended its desert climate 60 miles northward since the 1980s, says a recent ...
Mar. 9, 2022 —New research shows how, after it rains, microbes in desert soil convert one form of pollution into another -- laughing ...
May 5, 2021 —Rarely has the United States-Mexico border become the source of positive news of lately. However, a new study demonstrates it's one of the world's top biodiversity hotspots for bees. A ...
Oct. 19, 2020 —Using luminescence dating of ancient river sediments, a new study presents evidence for river activity at Nal Quarry in the central Thar Desert starting from approx. 173 thousand years ago. These ...
Aug. 26, 2020 —In the American Southwest, native desert bighorn sheep populations found in landscapes with minimal human disturbance, including several national parks, are less likely to be vulnerable to climate ...
Dec. 14, 2020 —Scientists have made important improvements to our understanding of how water moves through and gets stored in dry desert soils by refining an existing computer ...
May 19, 2023 —New evidence for the presence of ancient lakes in some of the most arid regions of South Africa suggests that Stone Age humans may have been more widespread across the continent than previously ...
Sep. 24, 2020 —Carbon, one of the main building blocks for all life on Earth, cycles among living organisms and the environment. This cycle, and how it works in one of the driest places on Earth, is the subject of ...
Feb. 3, 2021 —In the Namib Desert in southwestern Africa, the Kuiseb River, an ephemeral river which is dry most of the year, plays a vital role to the region. It provides most of the vegetation to the area and ...
