Deserts often bring to mind images such as caravans and camels in the Sahara or the dry, Mars-like surfaces of the Atacama.

Farmers in Saudi Arabia are being encouraged to adopt new irrigation techniques as water and land re-sources are put under ...

Despite the defiant in-your-face ‘all is well’ stance, especially of rich nations, climate change is a clear and present ...

The failed negotiations come in the aftermath of three other global conferences that have fallen short of expectations ...

Through events, programmes and publications, FAO reiterates its call to restore agricultural lands as key to transforming ...

Despite two weeks of U.N.-sponsored talks in Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh, the participating 197 nations failed to agree on a plan ...

Big initiatives do not always lead to positive results. Negotiations at the UN Conference to Combat Desertification, COP16, ...

Aridity, an "existential crisis" reshaping life on Earth, could impact five billion people by 2100. Dramatic water-related ...

Countries including the US successfully resisted Africa’s push for a legally binding drought protocol at the “land COP” in Riyadh ...

The climate crisis is not a distant threat; it’s happening right now and affecting what matters most to us. Hurricanes ...

Desertification is a serious problem in seven of the country's 17 regions. In western Kazakh regions, rising temperatures and ...

United Nations-sponsored negotiations to tackle climate change, plastic pollution, loss of global species and a growing ...