A new study indicates that the world will experience more frequent and more extreme drought and aridity than currently experienced in the coming century, exacerbated by both climate change and ...

When extreme drought strikes, drier grasslands receive the greatest productivity benefit from biodiversity. By contrast, ...

A new study provides evidence that extreme aridity in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert began approximately 45 million years ago, thus significantly earlier than previously assumed. The ...

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Desert: A region of extreme aridity and, usually, of high temperature. One-seventh of the Earth’s land surface is covered by deserts, and most of the world’s deserts border on or are geographically ...

Climate simulations suggest that land-atmosphere feedbacks involving soil moisture effects on atmospheric temperature and humidity can increase the frequency and intensity of atmospheric aridity, ...

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