As the frequency, duration and intensity of conflicts have increased, as measured by conflict-related fatalities in the graph below, so has the number ... 950 people are known to have died while ...

A new study recently published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, provides new insights into the meteorological ...

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Two students from Northern Ireland are preparing to run the equivalent of over six marathons in a week for charity in the blistering Sahara Desert heat. Jake McBride and Ross Clarke, both 22 ...

By Lisa Friedman Nonprofit groups have sued the agency to get access to grants approved by Congress to fund climate and clean energy projects across the country. By Claire Brown The storied ...

The Great Green Wall in the Sahel, a mosaic of forests, farmlands and grasslands dotting the arid fringes of Sahara, was ...

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Archaeologists discovered an ancient underground city beneath Abarkuh, Iran, where residents in Iran escaped above-ground heat. In the subterranean settlement, they found an aqueduct to transport ...