Even their poo can be used as fuel for fires! People, plants and animals have adapted and learnt to live in this arid environment and there are certainly no shortages of creatures here.

Mr Burgoyne said the funding cuts to the Environment Centre NT (ECNT) and the Arid Lands Environment Centre (ALEC) showed the government was serious about taking action to provide businesses more ...

The Atacama Desert resembles a Martian landscape with its barren, lifeless terrain ... in the Atacama Desert’s super-arid ...