The Atacama is the world’s driest non-polar desert – a landscape so vast and arid that Nasa practices Mars expeditions there. So when a carpet of purple flowers began poking through the earth ...

The second biggest desert in the world is also a polar landscape, as the Arctic Polar Desert spans 5.3 million square miles. Both of these polar landscapes are bigger than the three largest hot ...

The icy landscape is featureless and flat ... Even bacterial life struggles to survive in the cold, dry climate of the polar desert. There’s a third less oxygen than at sea level, impairing ...

An atmospheric river brought warm, moist air to the coldest and dryest corner of the planet in 2022, pushing temperatures 70 ...

A new study highlights the significant impacts of unprecedented heat waves in Antarctica, which are occurring even during ...

“It’s important that we pay attention to these signals, even if they’re coming from microscopic organisms in soils in a polar ...

Stunning timelapse photography as the seasons change reveals a surprising and other-worldly landscape ... as spring changes to summer. A true polar desert, Ellesmere gets less then 70 mm of ...

The dry, desolate landscape of the Atacama Desert has been ... The Atacama Desert, Chile. The driest non-polar desert on earth. Average annual rainfall? Under a millimetre, with some regions ...

From Lake Havasu to Lake Powell to Canyon Lake, here's everything you can do at Arizona's most gorgeous lakes, plus what to ...