There is a trend of growing plants that take a lot of care to flourish in the desert. These include tropical or subtropical plants for permaculture “food forests” like avocado and sapote and tender ...

The nutrients animals ingest are allocated to serve different functions. We used contrasting C stable isotope signatures of dominant vegetation types in a North American subtropical desert to decipher ...

In a study supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, researchers from the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland found that the Sahara ...

Atmospheric temperature measurements by U.S. weather satellites indicate Earth's hot, tropical zone has expanded farther from the equator since 1979, says a study by scientists from the University of ...

The world's subtropical deserts could expand up to 34 per cent by the end of the century, according to a new study. More moderate estimates suggest at most a 10-per-cent increase in desert area by ...

When many people envision deserts, they picture scorching, arid landscapes adorned with sand dunes and perhaps a few cacti. However, not all deserts fit this stereotype, and not all are characterized ...