For many, planting trees has become synonymous with fighting climate change. But in the hot and arid desert, it isn't that simple. However, desert landscapes can also serve as carbon sinks, absorbing ...

How desert conditions reshape aircraft maintenance in the Gulf, from engine erosion to corrosion control, with OEM-backed ...

Sudden floods, rising sea levels, devastating droughts, wildfires… Climate disasters have combined on this island of five ...

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 study. Rising ...

Desert storms that have sent massive plumes of dust across the oceans may have a small but significant effect on global temperatures, scientists say. New research found the microscopic particles ...

The High Desert Museum and Portland art collector Jordan Schnitzer are teaming up to launch a new award recognizing people ...

When it comes to environmental disasters, birds are literal canaries in the coal mine. The state of their existence can indicate when something is going very wrong with nature overall. A new study ...

SAN DIEGO — In the struggle to survive the ever hotter deserts of California, there are winners and losers. Among the losers are desert birds, whose populations have collapsed amid the heat stress of ...