In the study, "Greening of the Thar Desert driven by climate change and human interventions, published in Cell Reports Sustainability," researchers conducted an observational analysis using remote ...

Credit: Royalty-free via Getty Images India's Thar Desert has become 38% greener over the past 20 years, driven by a combination of climate change and agricultural expansion, according to a new study.

To understand how this happened, the team analyzed human and climate activity within the region during this period. They found that the desert experienced a 64 percent increase in monsoon ...

However, feedback to climate warming and the underlying microbial mechanisms remain poorly understood, with soil microbial respiration considered a key source of uncertainty in the projection of ...

How did water-dependent mammals, including our early ancestors, manage to cross this inhospitable desert in the past? Until now, little was known about the former climate of the Arabian Peninsula, as ...

The climate crisis is amplifying displacement and making life harder for those already forced to flee. Climate change and displacement are increasingly interconnected. As extreme weather events and ...

President Donald Trump continued dismantling U.S. climate policy this week when he directed the Justice Department to challenge state laws aimed at addressing the crisis — a campaign legal ...

In the Trump administration’s first 100 days, advocates for climate policy have been hit by actions to close climate departments, halt offshore wind leases, cut green energy funding, and impose ...