In the parched village of Banissa in Mandera County, there are no taps. The only water available to drink comes from the single drying borehole about 13 kilometres away. The land is bare with small ...

MILAN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--“We have entered a new phase of human history, in which we will finally see a new alliance between forests and cities, two environments that our species has always kept ...

Can I grow fruits in arid or semi-arid environments? This was a question from a regular reader. The answer is yes. In fact, there are a number of fruits that are perfectly apt for desert like ...

Strategies deployed for the restoration of degraded land have had promising results in Brazil’s semi-arid region, improving the microbial properties of the soil and contributing to a return of native ...

Climate change is making heavy rainfall extremes in the world’s humid and arid areas more intense, according to researchers in Australia and Spain. But for annual precipitation totals, the outlook is ...

New vegetation in barren areas offers possibilities for sequestering carbon in the soil. Arid and semi-arid areas (ASAs) are candidates for new vegetation. The possibility of agriculture in ASAs is ...

The IAEA is launching a new Coordinated Research Project (CRP) aimed at improving the understanding of radionuclide transfer in arid and semi-arid environments in support of radiological environmental ...