The Ancient Green Sahara Discovery The African humid period reveals how northern Africa was dramatically wetter during the ...

Africa’s “Great Green Wall” initiative is a proposed 8,000-kilometer line of trees meant to hold back the Sahara from expanding southward. New climate simulations looking to both the region’s past and ...

Southern Africa felt so very familiar to me. It's wet and dry season was like ours and the plants were recognizable from gardens here. But it was the way they treat outdoor spaces that was so ...

In May and June, the Food and Agriculture Organization’s commission for controlling desert locust outbreaks in West and ...

Parts of Africa are currently facing the worst locust swarms in more than a generation, with swarms the size of cities sweeping across countries including Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia. The largest ...

Increasingly frequent and severe heat waves in the Southwest are damaging some desert plants known for thriving in harsh conditions. Saguaro cacti and agave have both suffered in sweltering weather ...

Feral donkeys, or burros, in the Sonoran Desert have been eating the larger plants that provide shelter for smaller plants ...