Parched parts of Earth expanding. By 2100, drylands will cover more than half of Earth's land surface, new climate projections show.

As glaciers melt due to climate change, the increasingly hot and parched Earth is absorbing some of that water inland, slowing sea level rise, NASA experts said Thursday.

Taken as a whole, the planet is quite parched. However, it is the 0.023% of Earth’s mass that is water, and that makes life, as we know it, possible. Share Share this article.

The sky over Mexico City, blue and cloudless since November, last week turned grey. Now & then a little rain fell, and the afternoon winds ceased to cloak the city with powdery dust from the ...