After the treaty was adopted last year by the United Nations, more than 100 countries have signified their intent to ratify ...

China just connected its largest single-capacity solar farm built on a former coal mining area, which is in the Gobi Desert, to the grid.

Imagine a world where continents are fused into one massive landmass, and life as we know it is on the brink of ...

The Atacama Desert harbors unique desert life with diverse microbes.New techniques separate genetic material in low-biomass ...

Oceans are the Earth's most significant biome, covering over 70% of the planet's surface. However, much of the ocean is ...

NASA's EMIT collected this hyperspectral image of the Amazon River in northern Brazil on June 30 as part of an effort to map global ...

This month will see a striking astronomical event, as the prolific Leonid meteor shower sends lights streaming through the ...

The Atacama Desert is one of the most extreme habitats on Earth. Atacama surface soil samples include a ... is the driest place on the planet and, largely because of that aridity, hostile to most ...

A 2010 satellite image shows dozens of golden islands covered with strange parallel lines shining among the shallow waters of a massive, half-full ephemeral lake in Australia's Great Sandy Desert.

V iewed from space, the western edge of the Sahara Desert looks like another world. Its abundance of red-tinged sand turns ...

From petrified forests to a fiery crater burning for 50+ years, these eight geological phenomena reveal Earth's mysterious ...

I pinched myself, however, to be sure I was day conscious, when the news came about two weeks ago that Jigawa State Commissioner for Special Duties was found almost 297 kilometres away in Kano, ...