While Earth became a thriving planet filled with life, Mars, once a possibly habitable world, is now a cold, barren desert. So, why did Mars die, and Earth live?

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Soil and rocks returned from the moon’s mysterious far side suggest it may be drier than the side constantly facing Earth, Chinese scientists reported Wednesday.

A total of 77.6% of land on the planet experienced drier climates from 1990 to 2020 compared to the previous 30 years, according to the report by the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).

In its new report, the U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) found that 77.6% of the Earth's land has become permanently drier over the last three decades leading up to 2020.

Aridity, an “existential crisis” reshaping life on Earth, could impact five billion people by 2100. Dramatic water-related disasters, such as floods and storms, have intensified in parts of the world, ...

In the last three decades, three-quarters of Earth’s land has become permanently drier, according to the office of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). Between 1990 and 2020, 77.6% of ...

Three-quarters of Earth’s land has become drier since 1990. Droughts come and go – more often and more extreme with the incessant rise of greenhouse gas emissions over the last three decades ...

Three-quarters of Earth’s land has become drier since 1990. Droughts come and go – more often and more extreme with the incessant rise of greenhouse gas emissions over the last three decades – but ...

As 77.6% of the planet has grown drier, 22.4% has grown wetter, especially in the central U.S., Angola’s Atlantic coast, and southeast Asia—regions that have seen increasingly powerful storms ...

More than three-quarters of Earth’s land became permanently drier in recent decades, according to a landmark report from the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). The UNCCD says that ...

UN report warns increase in permanently dry land is 'redefining life on Earth' Just over 75 percent of the world's land has been left "permanently drier" over the previous three decades, a UN ...

Over 77 per cent of Earth’s land experienced a drier climate during the three decades leading up to 2020, compared to the previous 30-year period, according to a report released by the UN ...