Have you ever seen what appears to be dark clouds raining down on Denver without feeling any moisture? This weather ...

A new study led by Prof. Li Zhi from the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has ...

Following an unusually dry winter, Israel's Mekorot is embedding climate emergency planning into its long-term strategies.

Guayule is a shrub native to the Chihuahua desert in Mexico, but farmers in Arizona are growing it and selling it to rubber ...

The 100th meridian marks a dividing line between moist climates to the east and arid climates to the west. Climatologists now ...

Australia’s giant Protemnodon kangaroos didn’t die out everywhere at the same time. Instead, extinction proceeded one habitat ...

Dust-on-snow is a major threat to water in the Colorado River, yet no snowmelt forecasts integrate dust-accelerated melt. Using pioneering remote sensing techniques, new research is the first to ...

Researchers from McGill University, UCLA and Princeton have found an inexpensive, sustainable alternative to mechanical cooling with refrigerants in hot and arid climates, and a way to mitigate heat ...

Apricot trees don't mind some dry heat and are known to produce large amounts of fruit, even in arid climates like California, Nevada, and Utah. A 2000 study published in Scientia Horticulturae showed ...

Published in Communications Earth & Environment, the study highlights how shifting climate cycles dramatically reshaped ... the region experienced a sharp decline in rainfall, creating dry, arid ...

The average air temperature across the continent was a significant 2.41C above the recent average for March (1991-2020), according to new figures from the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service.

"The Caatinga is a different biome from the others in Brazil because of its semi-arid climate, which is only ... and shrubs shed their leaves in the dry season; because they are short-lived ...