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Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar-led research suggests climate change, increased monsoon rainfall and expanded groundwater pumping have driven substantial vegetation growth in the Thar ...

The future is bright for these rare orchids. Scientist trains dogs to locate nearly extinct species in its natural habitat: ...

The young and young at heart alike starting Saturday will enjoy an entirely new outdoor play experience at the High Desert Museum. Years in the making, the E. L. Wiegand Ponderosa Playscape will open ...

Humans, among other species, are attracted to color. For at least 100,000 years, humans have been creating colors from ...

A caravan of camels rolled through Coronado Historic Site — and it wasn’t even hump day. The Texas Camel Corps visited the Bernalillo historic site Saturday to teach about the animals’ history in the ...

A new study finds that Arabia was once a green corridor of rivers and lakes, enabling animal and human migration between Africa and Eurasia over the past 8 million years. A new study published in ...

Desalination can create millions of gallons of fresh water a day. But it is expensive and there are many environmental ...

Now one of the driest places on Earth, the Saharo-Arabian Desert may have been key to human migration history.

This odd plant hidden in the Namib Desert looks like it belongs in a Sci-Fi movie, but it's actually one of Earth's ...

A new study reconstructing the Arabian Peninsula’s ancient past adds clues to how early humans left the African continent.