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Turkmenistan Starts Building New Desert Sea: Glorious Deed or Disaster...
The Aral Sea, Central Asia's most (in)famous body of water, has become a global symbol of environmental mismanagement. But at least one government in the region doesn't seem to have
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Could Bacteria-Filled Balloons Stop the Spread of the Sahara? Architect...
Nearly a year ago a "Great Green Wall" of trees was proposed to run across the entire southern border of the Sahara desert in an attempt to stop expanding desertification. At the TED Global conference...
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Bustan Builds a Model of Desert Sustainability
After a volunteer accidentally burned down its office, Bustan, an environmental justice organization based in Israel's Negev desert, decided it was time to
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Arizona Art Museum Seeks to Define Sustainability
From a painter's satirical take on 1950s images of a bucolic world to
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Climate Change Puts the Reality in This TV Show
At first it sounds like any other reality show: "Candidates will be put through a series of tough physical
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Australia's Invading Camels Soon to Be Croc Food
Locals in one region of the Australian Outback have been terrorized of late by a roaming band of feral camels. Drought conditions and a recent heat wave are being blamed for driving some 6,000 camels...
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Africa's Great Green Wall Hopes to Stop the Spreading Sahara - If It Ever...
It's been a couple of years since the still-planned and so-called Great Green Wall of Africa graced the pages of TreeHugger, so here's a quick update and overview: As the BBC reports, African leaders...
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Desert-Dwelling Animals in Strange and Stunning Photos
Deserts are hot, dry, and unforgiving -- which makes them difficult environments for most creatures to survive in. But desert residents who have adapted to the temperatures -- by learning to survive...
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Mideast Nations to Work Together to Fight Sandstorms
Though conflicts over sparse water supplies have created rifts between Turkey and its neighbors, the sandstorms they exacerbate have brought countries in the region
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The Global Battle to Conserve and Rebuild Soil
The literature on soil erosion contains countless references to the "loss of protective vegetation." Over the last half-century, clearcutting, overgrazing, and overplowing have removed so much of that...
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Footballs To Be Made from Feral Camel Leather
Australia has a feral camel problem. The Australian Feral Camel Management Project estimates that 1 million of rogue dromedaries roam outback Australia, annually causing over $14 million AUD worth of...
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The Man Who Stopped the Desert - How One Man Saved the Soil (Video)
From Wangaari Maathai's Billion Tree campaign to lush permaculture landscapes in Jordan, we've seen how individuals and communities can reverse desertification and bring life back to arid soils. Now a...
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Big Squirreltail Evolves to Fight Off Fiery, Invasive Cheatgrass
Nicknaming plants. Now there's a good job to have. The invasive plant in this tale, called "cheatgrass," is being fought off by a native
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Threatened Tortoises Slow Down Desert Solar Project
The building of the massive 5.6-square mile Ivanpah solar project in the Mojave Desert by BrightSource Energy has been suspended in the midst of
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Arabian 'Unicorn' Back from the Brink in Middle East Thanks to Captive...
A bright white antelope with long thin horns, the Arabian oryx is thought to have inspired early stories of unicorns. (Its two horns appear as one when viewed from the side.) And until
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eBay's Desert Data Center Gets Into Hot Water
Cooling a data center in one of the hottest parts of the USA can be done by using hot water, as eBay's Phoenix facility finds.
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Planting Trees in the Mongolian Desert to Fight Dangerous Dust Storms in Seoul
Korean activists are spearheading efforts to plant trees in Mongolia, hoping to improve both the lives of nomadic desert herders there and the air quality their families are exposed to back home.
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Modern Oasis Design Provides Shade, Makes Energy
Artist/inventor Michael Jantzen's new concept for a Solar Winds Desert Power Plant envisions a large public gathering place, inspired by the shape of a flowering plant, to be located in a public park...
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8 Awesome Airstream Hotels, From the California Desert to the French Pyrenees
A drive-in movie theater in the wilderness and an urban rooftop are just a few of the innovative spots from which stylish trailer hotels are popping up.
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340 Ton Rock Levitates Above the Ground in Los Angeles
It's a 340 ton rock, balancing over a crevice...forever.
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CO2 making the deserts bloom
What is CO2 fertilization effect and how is it changing our planet?
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Growing an oasis in the desert and bananas in Massachusetts
"If we can do it here, we can do it anywhere," says Geoff Lawton. So let's get started.
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How to reverse desertification. With rocks.
Could strategically-placed rock walls help to re-green the desert?
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Aboriginal hunting practice helps kangaroos
Studies show that humans and kangaroos may have co-evolved to be mutually beneficial to one another.
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Clever rainwater garden grows squash and corn in Arizona desert
When you've got a lot of driveway runoff, some careful landscaping can put it to good use.
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Prehistoric shrimp emerge from Australian desert after heavy rain
Imagine millions of these slithering out from the mud? The eggs of this alien desert crustacean remain dormant for years, waiting for a bout of rain to hatch.
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Tree-dwelling gray foxes decorate with skeletons
As the only canids that can climb trees, gray foxes frequently drag fawn and rabbit skeletons onto the branches with them.
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Man selling mint leaves in Morocco (photo)
It took me hours, but I finally found this guy.
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It hadn't rained here in centuries – now it's raining and everything's dying
Recent rains attributed to a changing climate are leading to mass extinction in the Atacama Desert.
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Huge lake appears in North America's hottest, driest spot
Check out these photos of a surprise 10-mile lake that popped up in Death Valley, California.
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