In this episode, we explore the incredible strategies that allow desert trees like the mesquite and acacia to endure extreme heat, scarce water, and nutrient-poor soils. From deep roots to unique ...

A solar farm in the Mojave Desert is destroying thousands of iconic Joshua trees. It could be the tip of the iceberg as the ...

Grazing animals can destroy many desert plants and animals ... ways to rotate crops to protect the fragile soil, and plant sand-fixing bushes and trees. Planting leguminous plants, which extract ...

Their “Great Green Walls,” grand projects to beat back encroaching desert by planting trees, have required decades ... agricultural sector, improving soil health while sequestering carbon ...

The Sabino Canyon Volunteer Naturalists, a Tucson nonprofit, made a video about nurse trees — native ones like mesquites, ...

Global warming threatens to change the ecology of deserts: Higher temperatures may produce more wildfires that alter desert landscapes by eliminating slow-growing trees and shrubs and replacing ...

The clay gave the soil both its resilience and ... an initiative to build a wall of trees and agroforestry to stop the expansion of the desert in North Africa,” says Sivertsen.

Over the past 30 years, China has committed to massive desert reclamation projects. These efforts included tree-planting campaigns, irrigation systems, and advanced soil treatments to improve ...