An Icy Expanse The Antarctic Desert may come as a surprise to many as it doesn't fit our conventional idea of sand and heat.

Before the 1960s, the fourth largest lake on Earth glistened for miles across the borders of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.

From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a vast alien-like installation of hundreds of thousand of mirrors pointed at three towers, ...

The world's largest solar power plant ever built in a desert is currently under construction on the outskirts of Dalat. The conditions for the large-scale project are apparently favorable.

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Far from being barren wastelands, deserts are biologically rich habitats with a vast array of animals and plants that have adapted to the harsh conditions there. Some deserts are among the planet ...

But what do we really know about the desert ecosystem in this part of the United Arab Emirates? I’m here in one of the world’s largest hot deserts - the Arabian Desert. It’s located between ...

When you think of places that are perfectly suited for solar energy, deserts often come to mind. After all, these areas ...

Before the 1960s, the fourth largest lake on Earth glistened for miles across the borders of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. By 2015 most of that shiny surface was reduced to a hauntingly barren expanse, ...