The combination of extreme heat and sustained drought in the Sonoran Desert is taking a toll on our iconic saguaro cactuses, ...

One of the biggest states in the US is currently experiencing an unprecedented heatwave, with temperatures in several cities ...

In the study, "Greening of the Thar Desert driven by climate change and human interventions, published in Cell Reports Sustainability," researchers conducted an observational analysis using remote ...

To understand how this happened, the team analyzed human and climate activity within the region during this period. They found that the desert experienced a 64 percent increase in monsoon ...

Credit: Royalty-free via Getty Images India's Thar Desert has become 38% greener over the past 20 years, driven by a combination of climate change and agricultural expansion, according to a new study.

Pablo Guerrero has been visiting cacti in the Atacama Desert his whole life, first on family trips to the Chilean coast and later as a researcher studying the impacts of climate change and illegal ...

Volcanic eruptions pump out more ash, intensifying desert conditions. The climate implications of HLD differ significantly from those of low-latitude dust. The IPCC considers brighter Saharan and ...

Phoenix's signature misters were definitely working in overdrive! But such is desert life. Under the Köppen climate classification system, the most popular climate classification system in the ...

How messed up is planet Earth's climate? It's rain-in-the-Sahara-level messed up, apparently. As The Associated Press reports, a region of the Sahara Desert in southeastern Morocco last month ...

As the air retains more moisture, increased evaporation may draw additional storms, potentially changing the desert climate. Before the recent rains, drought plagued Morocco for six consecutive ...

Spain is slipping into a desert climate, according to a new study into the relationship between global heating and drought. The Mediterranean country is clearly on the frontlines of climate ...