Background: Drought-resistant varieties are an important way to address the conflict between wheat’s high water demand and the scarcity of water resources in the North China Plain (NCP). Drought ...

There are at least three things that Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger all have in common besides being neighbors in the Sahel region of Africa. One, they are all run by military juntas. Two ...

The countries’ withdrawal from ECOWAS will deprive their citizens of an important path for accountability and justice at a time when conflict-related abuses against civilians are rife in the ...

Cemaden's Ana Paula Cunha told G1 that Brazil had never recorded “such an extensive and intense drought as this one” since records have been kept starting in 1950.

Compared to the accumulated understanding of the legume/non-legume crop intercrops, very little is known about the effect of this practice when applied to native species on soil microbial communities ...

By 2015 most of that shiny surface was reduced to a hauntingly barren expanse, birthing the world's newest desert and impacting 3 million people that live in the surrounding region. The Aral Sea once ...

But the security situation in the Sahel, a vast region on the fringes of the Sahara Desert, has significantly worsened since the juntas took power, analysts say, with a record number of attacks and ...

Why art thou cast down, O my soul (Ps. 43:5). Is there ever any ground to be cast down? There are two reasons, but only two. If we are as yet unconverted, we have ground to be cast down; or if we have ...

Or as Debra Wanger, who plays the just-out-of-rehab Silda in Cygnet Theatre’s production of the family feud-themed “Other Desert Cities,” reminds us: “How many people have left a ...