2 million square kilometers, is what many imagine when they think of a desert. It's the world's largest hot desert, bigger than some countries. The sand dunes here can rise towering heights of up ...

As you can see from the climate graph, plants and animals in the desert have to cope with very little water. The climate is very hot. Summer day time temperatures can exceed 40°C. However ...

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This is the challenge faced by hotels built within Latin America ’s vast desert landscapes. Defined by their extreme aridity and minimal rainfall, deserts are often seen as harsh and inhospitable.

It's hard to imagine that global warming would have much effect on the world's already hot deserts. But even small changes in temperature or precipitation could drastically impact plants and ...

Last fall, I set out to see whether news deserts, towns that used to have local coverage but no more, have a counterpart — relatively media-rich communities that continue to draw still more ...