As he watches his neighbours watering the tens of thousands of tree saplings they planted in their Himalayan village a few ...

Khaki sand surrounds the shores of Lake Bardawil on the northern edge of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. The blue water is a marked contrast against the arid landscape. Pieter van Hout knows the region well ...

The African humid period reveals how northern Africa was dramatically wetter during the late Pleistocene and Holocene geologic epochs, when much of the Sahara desert was covered by grasses, trees and ...

KAUST researchers compared the land surface temperatures between different planted and bare soil environments around Saudi Arabia and found that vegetation provides an extra cooling effect. The ...

Recent studies have indicated a potential transformation of the Sahara Desert into a wetter and greener region due to rising ...

A Landscape in Flux The geological features found in the Rub’ al Khali suggest this was no simple story of slow desert greening. Instead, dramatic and repeated changes occurred. While the early to ...

The Oasis Cone is a modular, passive planting system engineered to access underground saline aquifers while protecting seedlings from evaporation, heat, and wind. Once placed in the ground, the cone ...

Future climate warming could lead to a re-greening of the southernmost Sahara (Sahel), with decreased dust emissions and changes in land cover. In a recent study, researchers have found that tropical ...

As he watches his neighbours watering the tens of thousands of tree saplings they planted in their Himalayan village a few months ago, Gyan Thinlay is excited about turning this patch of bare desert ...