With its intricate, patterned shell, the near-threatened Karoo tent tortoise is a unique and hard-to-find resident of South Africa’s drylands. This is just one dryland species that conservation ...

Mycorrhizal fungi are vital to ecosystems around the world, but remain largely understudied, especially in arid regions. They ...

Over the last five years, researchers have found that the death rate for saguaros in the Phoenix area jumped from 1% to 2% ...

Residents of the world's driest desert, the Atacama in northern Chile, woke up Thursday to a jaw-dropping spectacle: its ...

In Chile's arid Atacama, the driest desert in the world, growers and researchers are looking to harness water from the very ...

Arizona's saguaro cactus has evolved to thrive in the extreme climate of the Sonoran Desert, but after decades of rising heat, even these towering icons are showing signs of stress. Kris Van Cleave ...

This season, the History Channel competition series, “Alone,” drops each of the 10 participants off in a remote area of the Great Karoo Desert, where they’ll face dangerous temperatures ...

How to save a desert oasis—before it vanishes completely. For centuries, hundreds of millions of people have relied on desert wetlands that are now disappearing.

But climate projections predict "hotter, drier conditions", Barker said. "We'll be looking at a completely different vegetation type in the future, semi-desert almost in some places." "Many species, ...

A new fossil discovery suggests that reptiles lived together 20 million years earlier than previously thought.

Too much had been going on for me to have a moment to think about it. The trip was all about food, as is normal in my life; a small group of us going on the road, driving and talking, chopping and ...

June 15, 2025 — Underground fungi may be one of Earth s most powerful and overlooked allies in the fight against climate change, yet most of them remain unknown to science. Known only by DNA ...