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The world is ‘greening’ at an astonishing and rapidly growing rate and deserts are shrinking almost everywhere you look.

In contrast to media narratives that global warming causes higher temperatures and drought, you will see, conclusively, why droughts and dryness cause higher temperatures and how reduced transport of moisture from the oceans...

If iodine from dust was chemically transformed into an ozone-depleting form in the stratosphere, Volkamer said, “well, that’d not be good, as it could delay the recovery of the ozone layer.  Let's avoid adding anthropogenic...

A remote Central Australian community will trial a technology that boosts supplies of drinking water using solar power and air, after battling water security issues for several years.

Guest ridiculing by David Middleton 08 MAR 2019 STORY CLIMATE CHANGEEmpowering women on the frontlines of climate change On any given morning in the locality of Al-Rahad in Sudan, women like Hawa Abdullah, dressed...

US snowstorms, Tasmanian bushfires and Arabian plankton blooms were among the images captured by European Space Agency and Nasa satellites last month

Before you worry about rising sea levels, turn your attention to an arguably more pressing global threat: desertification. The term refers to the persistent land degradation that transforms arable land into barren desert;...

Scientists are always looking for ways to combat carbon emissions, and it’s common knowledge that plants consume carbon dioxide and turn it into oxygen, effectively cleaning our atmosphere...

  With its capacity to power 160,000 average-sized American homes, the Topaz Solar Farm in southern California is one of the largest solar farms in the world...

In 2007, the UN declared that desertification is one of the world's biggest environmental challenges that lead to widespread famine and economic instability...

In a new exhibition, Michael Pawlyn lays out his vision for architecture inspired by the natural world – including biorock buildings grown entirely underwater and whole office blocks being lit by learning from the blind...

Relationship breaks down between the two main advocates of a European energy revolution driven by desert solar powerThe two main advocates of a European renewable energy revolution driven by a vast grid of desert solar power...

World's biggest polluter spends £4bn a year on wind and solar power generation in single region as it aims to cut fossil fuel useThe remote, wind-blasted desert of northwestern Gansu could be the most unloved, environmentally...

One in six trees in the Sahel has died since the 1950s as temperatures rise, threatening livelihoodsTrees throughout Africa's Sahel region — vital to peoples' livelihoods — are dying as a result of long-term drought linked...

Coal extraction in 'the last frontier' expected to triple economy by 2020 but will compete with nomads for scarce resourcesAfter a 16-hour drive under the piercing blue skies of Mongolia's southern Gobi, the first view of...