When people hear the word “desert”, they think of scorching heat, an extremely hot atmosphere, and unbearable temperatures ...

Dr Jennifer Sciubba, author of 8 Billion and Counting: How Sex, Death, and Migration Shape Our World, told MailOnline that people are choosing to have smaller families and the change 'is permanent'.

Far from being barren wastelands, deserts are biologically rich habitats with a vast array of animals and plants that have adapted to the harsh conditions there. Some deserts are among the planet ...

Seeing the north coast of Peru for the first time, you would be hard-pressed to believe it's one of the driest deserts in the world. However, the apparent success of this system masks an ...

But not all deserts are hot, dry and sandy. Some of the world’s largest deserts are cold deserts located near one of the Earth’s poles, or at high altitude. The thing that characterises all ...

Consequently, the area possesses what are considered the world’s best examples of aeolian yardang landforms, as well as extensive stony deserts and dune fields. Yardangs are bedrock features carved ...

With more lands around the world facing increasing deterioration and degradation, the United Nations General Assembly declared the United Nations Decade for Deserts and the Fight Against ...

This transnational property comprises fourteen component parts found across arid areas of Central Asia’s temperate zone between the Caspian Sea and the Turanian high mountains. The area is subject to ...

It's hard to imagine that global warming would have much effect on the world's already hot deserts. But even small changes in temperature or precipitation could drastically impact plants and ...