Antarctica looks like the set of a science fiction epic, a continent of jagged ice cliffs, neon auroras and endless white horizons. Yet by the strict standards scientists use, it is not just a frozen ...

The Sahara is the world's most famous desert, a land of rolling dunes through which camel caravans once roamed from Marrakech to Timbuktu and beyond. At roughly 3.3 million square miles, and occupying ...

Deserts can be vast, desolate landscapes where nothing exists for hundreds of miles around. But there are impressive and inspiring places hidden even in the world's most remote locations. From sand ...

An experiment in western China over the past four decades shows that it is possible to tame the expansion of desert lands ...

When many people envision deserts, they picture scorching, arid landscapes adorned with sand dunes and perhaps a few cacti. However, not all deserts fit this stereotype, and not all are characterized ...

The Empty Quarter (Rub’ al-Khali), the vast desert of the Arabian Peninsula, was not always an arid landscape. A recent study by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), King Abdullah University of Science ...