Egypt is often known for its ancient history, vast deserts, and famous landmarks like the Pyramids of Giza - but now it’s ...

There are four types of desert found in the world: sub-tropical desert; Coastal deserts; Cold desert; Polar Desert. The fifth part of the Earth's surface is desert. They are found in Asia ...

The largest desert is much colder than you might expect. The largest desert in the world is also a continent: Antarctica. It covers approximately 5.5 million square miles, National Geographic reports.

The Antarctic polar desert is the largest in the world, spanning an area of 14.2 million square kilometres. Not only is it the largest, but it is one of the coldest areas on earth, with ...

The Earth is threatened by an increase in desert land caused byhuman activity and climate change, according to a report released on Monday, World Environment Day. The United Nations Environment ...

Desertification threatens 1.2 billion people in 110 countries, according to the UN, while two billion -- or a third of the world's population -- live in arid and semi-arid regions. Crop losses from ...

Increased levels of carbon dioxide have helped boost green foliage across the world's arid regions over ... particularly in deserts and savannas where the cover is less complete than in wet ...

CUPERTINO — A new public art sculpture made of sand from 58 of the world’s deserts will transform the appearance of an olive grove outside of the Apple campus’ visitor center by the summer ...

Deep in one of the world’s most arid deserts, people living centuries ago displayed their status by keeping an unlikely pet: the scarlet macaw, a large and demanding parrot imported from ...