Some plants have adapted to the arid climate by growing long roots ... and shrubs and replacing them with fast-growing grasses. Many desert plants can live for hundreds of years.

The Atacama is the world’s driest non-polar desert – a landscape so vast and arid that Nasa practices ... regularly broken by a pop of lush green grass or a cobalt lagoon.

Ancient Desert Dwellers Findings published by an international research team in Nature Communications Earth & Environment report that our early human relative, Homo erectus, lived in arid terrains in ...

Desert tortoises have lived in the deserts of California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah since the Pleistocene. In the early years of the 20th century, they still thrived within the Southwest's arid ...

The crews working on the Arid Heart episode of the Asia series had to contend with some of the toughest conditions on the planet, as they filmed in the deserts and dry grasslands of Central Asia.