Explores how plants and animals survive in one of Earth's harshest environments—deserts, where annual rainfall is less than 10 inches and temperature extremes are common. The film shows how desert ...

Imagine a landscape so barren it resembles Mars itself, where some weather stations have never recorded a single drop of rain in their entire operational history. This isn't science fiction – it's the ...

At first glance, Elhousine Elazzaoui’s life seems to exist in two entirely different worlds. One is defined by endless sun, shifting sand, camels moving across the Sahara and nights spent with family ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 2017, a team of scientists from Germany trekked to Chile to investigate how living organisms sculpt the face of the Earth. A local ...

TO the ordinary air traveler winging across the U.S. Southwest, the great American desert still seems an arid and forbidding waste of sand, dry lake beds and jagged rock mountains. But to the ...

In the Mojave, humans are reminded of our smallness, our naïveté, our transience. By Meg Bernhard On a frigid March morning in 2022, a friend and I were visiting the Mojave National Preserve in ...