NewsletterJason Hollinger/Flickr The desert’s fragile skin can’t take much more heat Climate change and human activity are destroying the layers of fungi, lichen, and bacteria that protect deserts from erosion.
Politics www.azcentral.com How researchers hope to preserve and restore 'biocrust,' the desert's protective skin Biocrust could prevent dust storms and erosion, even slow wildfires, but it's vulnerable to human activity and, increasingly, climate change.
A controversial facility that would process plastic waste to be burned in steel mills has been cancelled
Multiple Houston-area oil and gas facilities that have violated pollution laws are seeking permit renewals
