When people hear the word “desert”, they think of scorching heat, an extremely hot atmosphere, and unbearable temperatures ...

Curious about the largest desert in the world? Discover why the Antarctic Desert, covering millions of square kilometres, is ...

Scientists have found that a mere 30 species of trees in the Cerrado -- the world's largest and most floristically diverse savanna -- account for nearly half of all its trees. The 'hyperdominance' by ...

Until the 1960s, the Aral Sea was one of the largest inland reservoirs of water in the world. Over seven decades ... leaving behind a desert. The sea now sits at the border between Kazakhstan ...

The Empty Quarter, or Rub’ al-Khali in Arabic, is one of the world’s largest deserts. Spanning nearly 650,000 square kilometers—mainly in Saudi Arabia—it dominates the Arabian Peninsula ...

Despite its extreme dryness, the desert is known as world's largest fog desert, with fog providing some moisture, particularly in coastal areas ...

The Aral Sea once sat on the border between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, and was the fourth largest ... ecosystem was disastrous for the fishing industry there, and left behind a huge man-made ...