A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an arid desert with no trees. By Carl Zimmer ...

representing a previously unknown deep biosphere under hyper-arid desert soils.” But how could this microbial colony thrive ...

The Atacama Desert in northern Chile is the driest hot desert in the world. Higher life forms are almost entirely absent, but the hyper-arid soil, rich in salts and sulfates, does harbor bacteria ...

Desert plants may have to go without fresh water for years at a time. Some plants have adapted to the arid climate by growing long roots that tap water from deep underground. Other plants ...

An early human ancestor of our species successfully navigated harsher and more arid terrains for longer in Eastern Africa ...

One of the largest continuous deserts on the planet ... It rains less than 2 inches a year in this hyper-arid, extreme climate. Even so, Rub’ al-Khali was once home to large populations of ...

Desert tortoises have lived in the deserts of California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah since the Pleistocene. In the early years of the 20th century, they still thrived within the Southwest's arid ...

Dubai, December 5, 2024 : The world faces a looming crisis: land degradation is threatening food and water security, biodiversity, and economic stability, with arid and hyper-arid regions facing ...