Four football fields of land degrade into desert every second. That equates to an area almost as large as Ethiopia each year.

Yet more than one billion people, one-sixth of the Earth's population, actually live in desert regions. Deserts cover more than one-fifth of the Earth's land area, and they are found on every ...

But even small changes in temperature or precipitation could drastically impact plants and animals living in the desert ... growth and greater demand for land are serious obstacles in the effort ...

Two environmental nonprofit groups are suing ... facilitate the construction of the facility on 83 acres of open desert land at the northwest end of the unincorporated community.

Compared to a control environment ... its model worldwide through licensing deals in places with desert and degenerated land. HyveGeo’s goal is to regenerate 10,000 hectares of land and ...

Failed agricultural attempts, clearing land, road building ... Restoration Ecology 5, 113-121 (1997). Noy-Meir, I. Desert ecosystems: Environment and producers. Annual Review of Ecology and ...

"The Mojave Desert Land Trust is delighted to receive an award ... Janet Wilson is senior environment reporter for The Desert Sun and co-authors USA Today Climate Point. She can be reached ...

Ploughing, excavating and turning the soil also comes at an environmental cost as ... from the ability to turn the desert around them into fertile land. The arrival of the produce grown using ...