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Early heat wave breaks records in western US
AFP via Yahoo News· 39 minutes agoScorching temperatures broke early summer records in the western United States, before the region's first major heat wave of the year eased slightly...
Chile’s lithium dreams raise water concerns in the desert
Digital Journal· 2 days agoAs night falls in Chile’s Atacama desert, the world’s driest, a drilling machine extracts brine to...
Desert hero unveiled: Cissus quadrangularis genome | Newswise
Newswise· 2 days agoAs water scarcity looms as a major threat to global ecosystems and food production, the quest to...
Arid Deserts Are Devouring Earth's Rangelands, Threatening Billions
ScienceAlert via Yahoo News· 5 days agoCovering over half of Earth's land surface, rangelands sustain billions of people. These ecosystems – from deserts and grasslands to shrublands and tundra – produce a bounty ...
4,000-year-old rock art of boats and cattle unearthed in Sudan paint a picture of a green Sahara
Live Science via Yahoo News· 2 days ago"The cattle rock art is very significant, as cattle can no longer live in this hyper-arid desert,"...
Climate change could affect the food we grow. A UA researcher seeks ways to adapt
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 4 days agoTasting Tomorrow began in a part of the country where changes in the climate could one day change the way food is grown. From the dry heat of summer days to cool winter evenings, Tucson’s < ...
Unchecked growth around Big Bend sparks debate over water — a prelude for Texas
Texas Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 day agoNo one knows how much water sits beneath the desert of Terlingua. Residents worry their wells will...
Beehive Archive: West Desert wasteland: Pollution and sovereignty in rural Utah
Provo Daily Herald· 3 days agoJust around 45 miles west of Salt Lake City is a vast landscape shrouded in mystery and controversy....
The Audacious Plan to Seed a Global Green Hub in Namibia's Desert
Bloomberg via Yahoo Finance· 2 days ago(Bloomberg) -- Early in May, King Philippe of Belgium was on the edge of the Namib desert to...
What went down at Primavera Sound in Barcelona this year?
Euronews via Yahoo News· 5 days agoImages of the “Lana-stans” queuing up to get into the festival at doors, hours before her slot, set...