As the oldest and driest desert on Earth, Chile's Atacama Desert is a treasure trove of discoveries for scientists and ...

Learn more about the snowfall that shut down ALMA in the Atacama desert, and how researchers worry this could be a sign of ...

A satellite photo from July shows intricate snowy stripes painted across the Atacama Desert in Chile. The icy weather temporarily put the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) ...

Salt nodules (whitish rocks in the foreground) are the last outpost of life in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert (see hammer for scale). In a new paper published in Environmental Microbiology, ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. To compile a list of the largest deserts in the world, 24 ...

Earth’s driest ecosystems are a study in extremes: They can be blazingly hot stretches of sand like the Sahara Desert or shatteringly cold expanses of ice such as those in Greenland and Antarctica.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The survival tricks adopted by microbes known as hypolithic cyanobacteria, which are found ...

Around the world, dust storms are increasing and deserts shifting. In China, where a desert creeps toward Beijing, officials are worried about the 2008 Olympic games.

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 ...

The first space-style greenhouse could open in Abu Dhabi in 2022. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. High-tech solar greenhouses ...

OPINIONS are frequently so hastily formed, and conclusions are so often erroneous, that they need not be taken too seriously into account. One may believe that the earth is borne upon the back of a ...