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Deserts

July 2024

  • Future of Three tractors with Egyptian flags ploughing lush green fields. project, Egypt's 'Future Project for Agricultural Production' comprises more than a million feddans, which represents around 50 percent of the New Delta project.

    Greening the desert: is Sisi’s grand plan using up all of Egypt’s water?

    The ‘Future of Egypt’ envisages turning tracts of desert into farmland to grow crops for exports. But with sky-high food price inflation and a water deficit, critics doubt it is viable

March 2024

  • A star dune in Morocco

    Scientists unearth mysteries of giant, moving Moroccan star dune

    Parts of the structure are younger than expected while an east wind blows the whole thing across the desert, researchers find

December 2023

  • An athel tamasrisk tree in the Sahara, Morocco.

    Plantwatch
    How desert shrub’s salty ‘sweat’ collects water from dry air

    Athel tamarisk’s hydration trick could inspire methods of harvesting water in parched environments

July 2023

  • Sticks poking out of the sand and a house in the desert.

    The Guardian picture essay
    ‘Swallowed by the sand’: Somalia’s coastal towns succumb to the desert

    As deforestation removes protection from the ferocious winds, compounding damage from climate crisis-driven drought, sand dunes are burying the medieval port of Hobyo. Will pledges to green the desert save communities already displaced by war?

April 2023

  • An aerial view of a desert spinifex landscapes with regular bare circle patches

    Mystery of Australian desert ‘fairy circles’ may be solved thanks to Indigenous knowledge

    Bare circular patches may be linked to spinifex termites rather than just plants competing for water as scientists had concluded

March 2023

  • Two women in hijabs kneeling down amid stakes for young plants

    Greening the desert: the architect regenerating Jordan’s native forests

    Guilt over her role in concreting the landscape led Deema Assaf to set up Tayyun, dedicated to reforesting one of the world’s most arid countries

October 2022

  • Dry mountains in the background, with two people standing among short flowers on the desert flower

    How a desert bloomed in the driest place on Earth

    Unexpected emergence of flowering bulbs prompts move to designate Chile’s Atacama desert a protected national park

June 2022

  • A desert scene at dusk with a sky tinged blue and lavender. In the foreground are five spiny trees.

    California delays Joshua Tree protections as experts say time is running out

    Scientists predict that the spiny trees are unlikely to survive through the end of the century due to climate crisis

May 2022

  • Iraq's southern city of Nasiriyah during a heavy sandstorm on 5 May 2022.

    Hundreds of Iraqis hospitalised as thick sandstorm blankets country

    Flights suspended and authorities urge people to stay indoors as fifth sandstorm in a month hits Iraq

April 2022

  • A wryneck at Mispe Ramon.

    Country diary
    Country Diary: An abundance of migrating birds that takes the breath away

    Mitzpe Ramon, Israel: They’re on the move – kites, swifts, swallows, eagles, wheatears and warblers – on a route that’s served them since the ice age

March 2022

  • A Saharan dust cloud seen from Waterloo Bridge in London on 16 March.

    Weatherwatch
    How Saharan dust clouds that turn skies orange also nourish nature

    Dust is a precious fertiliser for the Amazon rainforest and feeds Atlantic phytoplankton

December 2021

  • Sahara Desert

    When the Sahara Was Green by Martin Williams review – the sands of time

    The fascinating story of a unique landscape surveys the climatic changes that made this desert dry – and explains why it will one day be green again

October 2021

  • A view of the road leading to the fishing port in Dakhla, Western Sahara

    Weatherwatch
    Weatherwatch: sandstorms and occasional floods in the Sahara

  • Stephanie Theobald outside the cave she has been living in since June 2020.

    ‘Sun-powered orgasms are fantastic’: why I went to live in a desert cave

August 2021

  • The Washingtonia palm field in February 2016 and then in 2019.

    From 1m trees to a tree graveyard: how Dubai’s conservation plans went awry

    Hundreds of thousands of trees have died after costly real estate projects thwarted attempts to halt desertification

March 2021

  • The Loess plateau, in China, in 2007, left, and transformed into green valleys and productive farmland in 2019.

    ‘Our biggest challenge? Lack of imagination’: the scientists turning the desert green

  • People looking at the panoramic view of Lyon from fourviere in the morning with a yellowish-orange sky over the city of Lyon.

    Pollutionwatch
    Pollutionwatch: how much Sahara desert dust do we breathe?

February 2021

  • A man repairs a section of the dingo fence

    Australia's dingo fence from space: satellite images reveal its effects on landscape

    Dingoes eat kangaroos and kangaroos eat grass. So on the side of the fence where dingoes are rare, there is less vegetation
  • The coastal dunes of the Namib desert.

    Weatherwatch
    Weatherwatch: Namibia is full of climate surprises

    A cool ocean current and a high capital bring surprising variety to a country of vast deserts
  • Tourists pose for photos with the massive white inselbergs that are characteristic of Egypt’s White desert

    From the agencies
    The inselbergs of Egypt's White desert – in pictures

    The unusual rock formations are scattered across the landscape of Egypt’s White desert, about 300 miles from Cairo
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