The second largest desert in the world is the Arctic Desert, covering approximately 13.9 million square kilometres (5.4 million square miles). This polar desert spans parts of Eastern Europe ...

studying how our planet’s changing climate is affecting the polar desert ecosystem of the Canadian High Arctic. I joined a team of wolf researchers and a BBC film crew to spend three months in a ...

So, whether it's surviving the harsh desert heat, weeks without food and water, or even the Canadian Arctic, the camel is one of the best adapters in the animal kingdom, and that's in large part ...

A true polar desert, Ellesmere gets less then 70 mm of rain and/or snow a year. During the brief summer, when the sun beats down twenty-four hours a day, the environment dries up and resembles the ...