Understanding how plants cope with climatic extremes and grazing pressure is important for reliable predictions about future biodiversity and the functioning of dryland ecosystems. An ...

Plants show surprising diversity in arid landscape. King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) Journal Nature DOI 10.1038/s41586-024-07731-3. Keywords ...

A Dutch engineer wants to transform an expanse of arid land into green, fertile land teeming with wildlife — and in the process, change the weather CNN values your feedback 1.

Until then, it was mostly foreign nationals, including from Asia and Europe, who illegally harvested plants during field excursions to South Africa. More recently, Saudi Arabians have also been ...

The Missouri Botanical Garden opens its Shoenberg Arid House on Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. It will be the first time the garden’s extensive collection of arid plants — cacti and other succulents ...

The region takes its name from the mallee ecosystems that prevail there. This is dominated by small, multi-stemmed trees and shrubs of the genus Eucalyptus that are highly adapted to the hot, dry ...

John C. Cushman, Ph.D., is a Foundation Professor at the University of Nevada and director of the Biochemistry Graduate Program in the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. He earned a ...