A drought has a beginning and an end. What's happening in the West doesn't seem to have an end, so what is it?

Even in the ultra-dry Atacama Desert, tiny soil-dwelling nematodes are thriving in surprising diversity. Scientists found ...

Antarctica, not the Sahara, is the world’s largest desert. Defined by extreme dryness rather than heat, this frozen continent stretches across 14 million square kilometres of ice.

The phrase Silk Route, however, peels back the layers of both the dish and Ladakhi cuisine itself, shaped by a harsh climate but also the caravans that once connected the region to Central Asia.

In 2015, NASA-backed research led by Hongbin Yu revealed that millions of tons of Saharan dust cross the Atlantic each year, ...

Winter temperatures in Alaska’s Utqiagvik routinely drop below minus-40. So why is this city of 4,700 people “desert”? It’s ...

A Tucson couple has lived almost entirely on rainwater for two decades. Is their method part of Arizona's future?

I used to believe two things about Aspen and climate change. I don’t anymore. Sitting at home writing a column in early March ...

Petroglyphs on sandstone at a national park in Chad bear witness to wildlife that once roamed the area before the continent’s ...

Chinese scientists have developed a microbe-based method to turn desert sand into stable soil, offering a new tool against ...