The second largest desert in the world is the Arctic Desert, covering approximately 13.9 million square kilometres (5.4 million square miles). This polar desert spans parts of Eastern Europe ...

Under the sea ice during the Arctic’s pitch-black polar night, cells power photosynthesis on the lowest light levels ever ...

The city only sees around 0.76 mm of rainfall per year, though its plant and wildlife life is supported by the moisture of a ...

So, whether it's surviving the harsh desert heat, weeks without food and water, or even the Canadian Arctic, the camel is one of the best adapters in the animal kingdom, and that's in large part ...

and arid stretches of polar desert — all north of the Arctic Circle. Our family visited every National Park before my brother went to college. We had to pull off a fast play to get Pinnacles done as ...

Remote, windswept, and harsh, the isle is classified as a polar desert, with barren mountains rising above frost-worn beaches. Its highest elevation is the Devon Ice Cap at 1,920 metres on the ...

An Arctic air mass kept its grip on much of the ... the Weather Prediction Center said. Temperatures in the Desert Southwest will surpass 90 degrees by Tuesday, the weather service said.

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 ...

From camel trekking and sandboarding to geodesic domes and yoga retreats, these striking desert destinations offer something for every type of traveller ...

studying how our planet’s changing climate is affecting the polar desert ecosystem of the Canadian High Arctic. I joined a team of wolf researchers and a BBC film crew to spend three months in a ...

A true polar desert, Ellesmere gets less then 70 mm of rain and/or snow a year. During the brief summer, when the sun beats down twenty-four hours a day, the environment dries up and resembles the ...