When you think of deserts, you might envision isolated wastelands confined to single nations. Yet the world's most massive ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...