Two species of Desertas Island land snails were thought to have gone extinct until scientists found small remaining colonies.

Once the world's fourth-largest lake, the Aral Sea has shrunk due to Soviet-era irrigation, sparking crises as Uzbekistan fights desertification ...

New method of regulating plant hormones allows researchers to increase quality and yields of rice crops grown in saline soil.

Trump wants Arab countries to take in Gaza’s population. The Biden administration already tried, and failed, to bribe and ...

The Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region has been transformed from having terrain dominated by desert into being a "granary on ...

Home to the oldest continuously cultivated soil in the US, this desert-bound city boasts a fascinating food scene all its own ...

Rajhi becomes the first driver to win on home soil since Pierre Lartigue won the Paris to Dakar to Paris rally in 1994.

The moment when the first members of the extended human family called hominins adapted to life in desert or tropical forests ...

Yazeed Al-Rajhi is set to win the Dakar Rally on home soil in the Saudi desert after retaking the lead from South Africa's Henk Lategan on Thursday. Lategan started the penultimate stage east of ...