Did you know the largest desert in the world isn’t hot? It’s cold! Surprised? A desert doesn’t need to be sandy—it just has ...

Our ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly hot and dry desert more than a million years ago, according to a ...

It must be starving! Amazing! So, desert habitats are dry and have very little water. Ooh I'm thirsty, I need a drink! Desert habitats are incredibly hot and dry places but some animals and plants ...

When intensive modern farming started, there was a staggering 120 cubic miles (500 cubic kilometers) of water beneath the Saudi desert, enough to fill Lake Erie in the U.S. But in recent years ...