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Part of the transformed Taklamakan Desert. (Le Yu/Tsinghua University) One of the driest regions in the world is being transformed into a carbon sink through a long-term, large-scale tree planting ...

When Saharan dust reaches the UK and Europe, as a huge country-sized cloud did over the past few days, it can transform the sky. Tiny particles drifting in the atmosphere scatter blue light while ...

Even in the ultra-dry Atacama Desert, tiny soil-dwelling nematodes are thriving in surprising diversity. Scientists found ...

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A drought has a beginning and an end. What's happening in the West doesn't seem to have an end, so what is it?

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Antarctica, the world’s largest desert, challenges the common idea that deserts are always hot. Despite being covered in ice, ...

Antarctica, not the Sahara, is the world’s largest desert. Defined by extreme dryness rather than heat, this frozen continent stretches across 14 million square kilometres of ice.

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