Arid and semi-arid lands represent 41% of the ... Combining remote sensing data and ground observation, Huang’s team mapped the routes and distribution characteristics of dust aerosols.

Observatories in Chile’s Atacama Desert, including the world’s largest optical telescope, could be blinded by light pollution ...

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

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 ...

It's hard to imagine that global warming would have much effect on the world's already hot deserts. But even small ... control salinization to improve arid lands, find new ways to rotate crops ...

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.

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 ...

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