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In a bid to ditch fossil fuels, some countries are considering carpeting deserts with solar panels.
Wetlands in drylands seem impossible, but their benefits to people and wildlife are very real.
Guano helped humans farm the world’s driest desert, new research finds.
Animals that regularly dine on toxic food may hold clues for designing new drugs to treat persistent pain in humans.
Australia is known as the ‘land of the lizards’. These photos show why they deserve more of your attention.
Martian meteorites allow scientists here on Earth to decode that planet’s geology, more than a decade before the first missions are scheduled to bring rocks back home from Mars.
They were looking to study rock art at a remote desert site but what they found showed people had been using the place almost since the first people arrived in Australia.
For those who are finding the social distancing isolating, here are some lessons from ancient hermits, who often found joy in being alone.
Australia’s deserts can be a harsh environment but plant life still survives there. So why not use them to develop the next generation of drought-resistant crops?
The Gobi Desert in East Asia conjures images of a remote landscape, with nomads riding across the steppe. In fact, today it is home to herders and farmers, the world’s fastest-growing economy, vast copper…
Drivers in parts of Southern England and Ireland have been finding fine red dust on their vehicles – sand blown all the way from the Sahara desert. There is now even a pollution warning because of the…
Snow falling in California can start off as dust in the Sahara desert, research has shown. Due to heavy winds early in the…
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