The Sahara Desert wasn’t always a barren wasteland—evidence suggests it was once home to lush vegetation, rivers, and ...

Discover how the vast expanses of the Sahara are being transformed into colossal hubs of solar energy. This feature explores the cutting-edge solar power plants sprawling across the desert landscape, ...

In October 2023, Zhang brought Juncao grass seeds to Mauritania from a field in China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. He ...

Painted lady butterflies are world travelers. The ones we encounter in Europe fly from Africa to Sweden, ultimately returning ...

Painted lady butterflies are world travelers. The ones we encounter in Europe fly from Africa to Sweden, ultimately returning ...

Africa is often synonymous with its drylands that cover two-thirds of the continent. Relief is brought through rainfall ...

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Painted lady butterflies are world travelers. The ones we encounter in Europe fly from Africa to Sweden, ultimately returning to areas north and south of the Sahara. But what determines whether some ...

This evidence aligns with palaeoclimate models suggesting the Sahara-like conditions ... extreme dryness, with desert-like environments and limited vegetation. The findings contrast with existing ...

A study from the U.S. Geological Survey found the ecosystems on California's public lands are losing the carbon they've locked up from the atmosphere faster than any other state, driven in large part ...

The year is marked by changes in the weather, ecology, and amount of daylight, and these changes result from earth's orbit around the sun and earth's axial tilt relative to the ecliptic plane.