BEIJING, April 22 (Xinhua) -- Along the southeastern edge of China's Tengger Desert, workers were pressing bundles of straw ...

Salalah – The Environment Authority (EA) is implementing a series of projects in Dhofar to combat desertification and protect ...

Unlike the Taklimakan Desert, often described as a “Sea of Death” due to its extreme aridity and highly mobile dunes, the ...

In Saudi Arabia, there have been attempts to redefine the utilisation of water in such regions, whereby the use of treated ...

Vegetation restoration is a primary strategy for combating desertification and increasing carbon storage in soils. While the focus has largely been on biological decomposition, a new study from ...

Scientists have used lab-grown cyanobacteria microbes to bind loose desert sand into a thin, stable layer that wind cannot ...

Can a place once written off as a “biological void” start cleaning the air? New research suggests it can. A 2026 study found that restoration work around China’s Taklamakan Desert is now pulling in ...

Desertification is a land degradation process in arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid regions driven by complex interactions among climate variability, anthropogenic pressure, and ecosystem sensitivity.

KISKUNMAJSA, Hungary (AP) — Oszkár Nagyapáti climbed to the bottom of a sandy pit on his land on the Great Hungarian Plain and dug into the soil with his hand, looking for a sign of groundwater that ...