And on all sides, the air is alive with the songs of desert birds. The deserts of the Southwest provide excellent birding.

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The Atacama Desert is a major source of lithium for EV batteries. As global demand ramps up, the local Lickanantay people are ...

As Earth continues to warm, more and more of the planet is becoming dry. A 2024 UN report found that in the last three ...

When a desert stream dries up, what do aquatic insects that live in the area do? And, when they can't survive a drought, what happens to our environmental ecosystem? Kate Boersma, associate professor ...

After 1-2 years of sand stabilization, the value of the desert ecosystem can be enhanced by grafting the valuable herb Cistanche onto the roots of existing plants. Each household contracts 30-50 mu of ...

Hence, groundwater depth is one of the most critical factors affecting soil nutrients in an arid desert ecosystem. This study could help elucidate trends in C, N, P, and K concentrations in desert ...

Should we carefully design the microbial composition beforehand, plant the microbes on the spacecraft and hope this artificial, closed ecosystem will work for years without any interventions from ...