Tiny soil animals survive harsh desert conditions, revealing hidden life and climate driven survival strategies underground.

Scientists analyzed chemical and isotopic markers in groundwater to reconstruct changes in water table levels over time.

Water shortages are expanding across the Earth. This is particularly acute in desert areas of the Middle East that are subject to both drought and extreme conditions such as flooding. As a result of ...

Underneath the parched sands of Atacama is a massive, diverse group of bacteria and a previously undetected biosphere, according to a new study. Reading time 2 minutes The Atacama Desert—an arid, ...

Deserts cover roughly a third of Earth’s land surface, and they’re far more varied and extreme than most people realise. […] ...

This video explores one of the deadliest deserts on Earth, where extreme heat and isolation create constant risk. It examines how limited water, shifting terrain, and sudden exposure can quickly turn ...

Any advocate of desert ecosystems will happily tell you that the desert is not a wasteland, despite what it might look like. And while most desert regions boast vast communities of mammals, insects, ...

A desert is one of the Earth’s biomes with a specific climate and its own types of plants and animals. About one fifth of the Earth’s land surface is classified as desert and they are found on every ...

Map showing (in red) the areas where heavy erosion was detected by satellite radar images following Storm Daniel in the watersheds of Eastern Libya and how the the streams loaded with high amounts of ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis is urging governments to make good on their commitments to curb climate change, warning that continued unsustainable development and rampant consumption threaten to turn ...

The new technique will map the top of the aquifer, called the 'water table,' spanning areas as large as hundreds of kilometers using a radar mounted on a high-altitude aircraft. According to the ...