A resplendent display of flowers has bloomed across Chile's Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on earth, after the El ...

Imagine a landscape so barren it resembles Mars itself, where some weather stations have never recorded a single drop of rain in their entire operational history. This isn't science fiction – it's the ...

Spending time with a Bedouin tribe reveals a way of life shaped by nature, tradition, and survival in the desert. From herding camels to cooking over open fires, every moment reflects a deep ...

Learn why a lichen found in the Mojave Desert has become key evidence in the search for extraterrestrial life. Much like we lather on sunscreen to protect our skin, lichen growing in the desert has ...

The largest hot desert in the world is vast and desolate, yet the Sahara is also home to a diverse array of plant, animal, and human life. It is the biggest desert of its kind in the world — almost as ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 2017, a team of scientists from Germany trekked to Chile to investigate how living organisms sculpt the face of the Earth. A local ...

Researchers from Cornell University in the U.S. and Spain’s Centro de Astrobiología have found a diverse ecosystem of microbes living in wet clay layers beneath the arid Atacama Desert in Chile. Could ...

Although deserts typically contain low density human populations, animals that live within them are still subjected to issues arising from human-wildlife conflict. In north-west Namibia, desert lions ...