The first large-scale map of rainfall declines revealed by signatures in ancient soil could help researchers better understand profound regional and global climate transformation. A new study ...

THE issue of this map occurs at an opportune moment. Public attention has been much directed lately to the once fertile strip of country that lies between the deserts of Arabia on the one hand, and ...

There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science ...

Natasha Barbolini receives funding from the European Research Council (grant MAGIC 649081), the Swedish Research Council (grant VR 2017-03985), and the Bolin Centre for Climate Research (grant ...

Rising annual temperatures and dwindling yearly precipitation across the mid-latitudes of Central Asia have extended its desert climate 60 miles northward since the 1980s, says a recent study. Rising ...

As global temperatures rise, desert climates have spread north by up to 100 kilometres in parts of Central Asia since the 1980s, a climate assessment reveals 1. The study, published on 27 May in ...