How communities in China helped keep desertification at bay

A fast-ageing population could deter efforts to achieve the United Nation’s target of zero land degradation by 2030

Lexical conundrum: Desertification does not allude to deserts

Today, desertification just means a reduction in the productivity of the land that is not reversible

Humans may have transformed the Sahara from lush paradise to barren desert

The world's biggest desert used to be green, lush and full of hippos. A new theory suggests humans could have tipped the environment over the edge

Letters

Clothing the desert

A sturdy mountain tree could transform chilly deserts into lush fields

Ants forage at 'safe' temperatures

Greening the desert

Turquoise tales

Precinct in the sand

A university of desert knowledge

ISRAEL

Keeping track of the dirt

Mystery of the Missing People

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Taking the short way home

Ants have sophisticated odometers

River of long ago

Blooming deserts

Changing perceptions

Experts say changes in the Earth's orbit may have led to the formation of the Sahara desert

Fusion project

Australian Band Labrats's Solar Music 'Combat Wombat'

Growing worries

This new device will ensure that plants grown in the desert do not lack water

La Nia flees

Indian monsoon may lose out

Nitrogen? Warming?

Enough of carbon talks. Heres a new element with potential

Blowing in the wind

Answers to why dust storms  are on the rise in East Asia  

Chillout zone

Darfur pays for its water

In 2006, Slovenian president Janez Drnov?ek sent filmmaker and political activist Tomo Kriznar as a peace envoy to war-torn Darfur. US pressure …

Drought forces Egyptians into felling trees