Scientists find that ecosystems across Africa follow similar patterns, with vegetation and human impact shaping food webs in ...

The Sahara is the world's most famous desert, a land of rolling dunes through which camel caravans once roamed from Marrakech to Timbuktu and beyond. At roughly 3.3 million square miles, and occupying ...

A new technique allows researchers to separate external and internal DNA to identify microbes colonizing the hostile environment of the Atacama Desert. The Atacama Desert, which runs along the Pacific ...

Where there’s a tree, there’s usually a forest. But not always. A biologist describes some of the loneliest trees on planet Earth. When we think about isolation in nature, we usually picture islands ...

From the tiny village of Machuca, Joel leads a 12-kilometre hike through the valley where he grew up. We duck beneath ...