Extreme flooding is on the rise, and government figures show that around 10,000 palm trees burn every year in wildfires. Drought­-stressed date palms in Morocco’s Tighmert Oasis are especially ...

The National Agency for the Great Green Wall (NAGGW) is a central federal government agency with an absolute mandate to ...

URUMQI, June 16 (Xinhua) -- Scientists from northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region are working to help African ...

Standing atop a small dune deep in the Sahara Desert, ... Even the sand contained evidence—pollen from palm and fig trees, cattails, and other plants associated with wet areas.

By leveraging smart technologies, indigenous Chinese expertise and a dual commitment to sand control and economic growth, they aim to establish sustainable ecosystems in these regions that have long ...

Imagine waking up tomorrow and discovering that Earth had started spinning in the opposite direction. The sun would rise in ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, on the territory of the uninhabited Sahara Desert, gardens flourished, rivers flowed, ancient people cultivated fertile lands. However, we know how it all ended - today ...

Statistics on deaths at sea vary considerably and are themselves deeply contested, and geographical designations of 'the Sahara' or 'the Mediterranean' are anything but specific — but that has not ...

“It’s very impressive,” DaSilva said. Cars drive along a highway as a cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert blankets most of the Caribbean, in Cataño, Puerto Rico, Monday, June 2, 2025.

Palm trees stand on Canal street in New Orleans, Friday, Aug. 18, 2023. Lethal bronzing disease is a disease that is killing off New Orleans' tall palm trees.

A massive cloud of dust that has traveled thousands of miles from the Sahara Desert is expected to reach Florida as early as the afternoon of June 4 before spreading through the Gulf Coast and ...