An African safari is a bucket list fantasy, right up there with sleeping in a Maldivian overwater villa or seeing the Taj Mahal. But dig into the detail to book and it becomes mor ...

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Scientists named 190 new plants and fungi in 2025, many already threatened. New DNA tools are speeding discovery as habitat ...

The Namib desert of south-western Africa can be extremely hot - the surface temperature can be over 50°C. But a surprising number of around 200 beetle species live on its bare, inhospitable-looking ...

Deserts are often dismissed as empty wastelands of sand and sun, but these arid landscapes hide some of the most perplexing puzzles on Earth. Far from being barren voids, deserts are active, shifting ...

Saudi Arabia plans to plant 10 billion trees, rehabilitating 74.8 million hectares across deserts under the Saudi Green Initiative nationwide/ Image: earth.com Saudi Arabia’s Green Initiative aims to ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The latest in a string of atmospheric rivers to sweep into the Northwest brought more rain and wind to the High Desert Thursday, sending high water across some Bend streets, ...

The road to the Tree of Life in Bahrain feels like a wrong turn, with one long stretch of the Sakhir Desert folding into another. When the 32-foot Persian mesquite tree finally appears, about 25 miles ...

Want a free tree and some expert advice on how to help it thrive in the desert? Head to Branigan Library on Nov. 19, 2025 for a climate-focused talk that will dig into the future of tree planting in ...

Where there’s a tree, there’s usually a forest. But not always. A biologist describes some of the loneliest trees on planet Earth. When we think about isolation in nature, we usually picture islands ...

You’ll find a lot more sand than trees in the Sahara Desert, but that doesn’t mean they don’t occasionally crop up. Here’s the story of the Tree of Ténéré, as well as a couple other famous trees found ...

Wild burros' appetite for native desert trees are endangering the health of Sonoran ecosystems, a new study found. By damaging cactuses and other vegetation, the burros also put themselves at risk, ...