I am a university president who did his undergraduate work in the state of Iowa and who has studied agricultural regions in more than 15 countries, but on a recent trip to Yuma I saw the most ...

Life in places like California’s Death Valley pushes everything to its limit. Temperatures rise past 120 degrees Fahrenheit. The light is harsh, the soil is dry, and most plants wilt fast. Yet one low ...

Emblazoned across the storefront in the desert of Coachella was an enticing advertisement, “Earliest Fruit and Vegetable Land in California – the Home of the Early Grape and Cantaloupe. Flowing ...

I grow leafy green vegetables in the desert. Here in the United Arab Emirates, we live not far from the birthplace of agriculture, but despite this find ourselves surrounded by sand with the challenge ...

By precise numbers, it has reduced the average carbon content in the desert air from 416 parts per million to 413 ppm.

Ak-chin farming makes desert agriculture possible, and now, those practices help communities today. Wenona & Sal Baldenegro (Tucson, Arizona) - Agriculture can thrive in the desert. The Tohono O'odham ...

Arizona is experiencing a historic drought gripping much of the desert Southwest and the Colorado River ecosystem.

Rising temperatures and extreme weather events exacerbated by climate change are making farming conditions increasingly challenging and disrupting food distribution. But scientists in some of the ...