A lone man walks across an expanse of ice; a mottled tundra; desert badlands. The single human figure becomes a focal point ...

Every mind-bending molecule in nature has an evolutionary origin; a defense against being eaten, a lure for pollinators, or ...

The deserts and grasslands take up to one third of the earths land and even without almost any water, life still finds it's way of surviving but are forced to do things differently.

Mars is a cold, dry, desert-like planet. But billions of years ago, scientific evidence suggests that it had a thick ...

Earth is called the Blue Planet because 71% of its surface is covered with water, giving it a blue glow when seen from space.

Earth’s driest ecosystems are a study in extremes: They can be blazingly hot stretches of sand like the Sahara Desert or shatteringly cold expanses of ice such as those in Greenland and Antarctica.

For decades, scientists have puzzled over why Earth stayed warm and alive while Mars turned cold and dry. Both planets began with similar ingredients—rocky surfaces, carbon, water, and sunlight—but ...

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Can you picture living where rain is a rare miracle? From Chile to California, these are the world’s driest places, where ...