A tiny seed is stuck between loose gravel and coarse sand. There is nothing else alive around it. All it can see is a wall of ice reaching 20 metres up into the sky. It is cold. Survival is hard ...

Diving deeper, we explore some of the world's desert regions and highlight what we consider to be some of the most breathtaking landscapes.

Claudia Colesie receives funding from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC, grant NE/V000764/1) and the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA, grant Darwin Plus ...

Antarctica's 'horror movie' base Sanae IV is ... time to remedy the situation but they simply buried their heads in the sand hoping that it'll go away," one source said. "They were informed ...

"What happens in Antarctica doesn't stay here," he said, while recently walking the beach at Whalers Bay, as scientists gathered samples from the sand, snow and air around him. Antarctic security ...

But Antarctica is far from an untouched paradise ... Geothermal steam flurried along the black-sand beach, where I followed a trio of gentoo penguins waddling along the shore.