Gardens and outdoor spaces

culturally connected oases

After 333 features in the format started in 2011, it is getting harder to find an issue / field that I haven't covered yet, but oases in the...

Even the worst mass extinction had its oases

Plants thrived in present-day China throughout the End-Permian extinction.

Safouan Azouzi: Lessons of Desert Oases for Eco-Resilient Transformation

Safouan Azouzi, a Tunisian scholar of the commons and participatory social design, discusses how cultural traditions in desert oases hold important socio-ecolog

World's oases threatened by desertification, even as humans expand them

Oases are important habitats and water sources for dryland regions, sustaining 10% of the world's population despite taking up about 1.5% of land area. But in many places, climate change and anthropogenic activities threaten oases' fragile existence. New research shows how the world's oases have grown and shrunk over the past 25 years as water availability patterns changed and desertification encroaches on these wet refuges.