Homo erectus outlived and outadapted other hominins by mastering life in extreme environments of Eastern Africa, a new study ...

Observatories in Chile’s Atacama Desert, including the world’s largest optical telescope, could be blinded by light pollution and other unwanted side effects from the proposed construction of a renewa ...

The Atacama is the world’s driest non-polar desert – a landscape so vast and arid that Nasa practices ... there’s also plenty of flat ground to explore. Andante Travels runs a 17-day Chile ...

Desert plants may have to go without fresh water for years at a time. Some plants have adapted to the arid climate by growing long roots that tap water from deep underground. Other plants ...

Hot, arid deserts like this are found on almost every continent. They cover around one-fifth of the Earth’s land area and are home to one-sixth of the world’s population, with almost 1.2 ...

A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an arid desert with no trees. By Carl Zimmer Chimpanzees live only in African rainforests and woodlands. Orangutans ...

Dozens of boxes holding mirrors are placed along a remote desert hill in northern Chile as workers make progress in the ...

The crews working on the Arid Heart episode of the Asia series had to contend with some of the toughest conditions on the planet, as they filmed in the deserts and dry grasslands of Central Asia.

From active volcanoes to frozen tundra and arid deserts, nature is filled with varied ... The second your feet lift off that ground, you’re in it. And you start kind of questioning yourself ...

Desert tortoises have lived in the deserts of California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah since the Pleistocene. In the early years of the 20th century, they still thrived within the Southwest's arid ...