For thousands of years, hunters around the world have employed poison-tipped arrows to assist in taking down prey. For ...

Large wild mammals—from elephants to antelopes—are already struggling to cope with global warming. Now new research shows ...

From a sprawling botanical museum in Arizona to a cliffside succulent sanctuary in France, these gardens prove the desert is ...

African striped mice are used to desert conditions but are showing dehydration as climate change heats up their environment.

Scientists aim to reclaim thousands of hectares of desert using cyanobacteria that can stabilise sand and create foundation ...

Dune 7 in the Namib Desert is one of the highest sand dunes in the world. Towering at over 1,000 feet, it offers an ...

This desert stretches across rocky hills and open land, filled with tall cacti and dry vegetation. A raw and rugged landscape ...

Rare, 9‑foot-tall red‑necked ostriches, sometimes nicknamed “camel birds” for their towering height and desert stride, have ...

New research is rewriting the story of the Arabian deserts, showing they were once full of water, wildlife and human life ...

Africa’s elephants are out of control, and the continent’s people, and plants, are paying the price. Far too many ...

Clearing water-guzzling and soil-damaging alien invasive plants costs South Africa several hundred million rands every year. Now, a promising pilot project to recoup some of this cost by producing ...