The region marks one of Canada’s few desert environments (semi-arid desert as opposed to rolling Sahara-like dunes), and the unique minerality of the soil in combination with extreme swings in ...

A desert is one of the Earth’s biomes with a specific climate and its own types of plants and animals. About one fifth of the Earth’s land surface is classified as desert and they are found on ...

Dorling Kindersley/Getty Images In North America, the broadest biomes are: Tundra Boreal Deciduous Desert Prairie Mixed evergreen and deciduous Tropical Montane Temperate and tropical rainforest ...

A 580-square mile slice of semi-arid desert in southeast Washington that was used to produce nearly two-thirds of the plutonium used in the United States’ nuclear weapon stockpile is being ...

Major heat wave intensifying in parts of U.S. A woman died while hiking in western Colorado on Monday as a heat dome blanketed pockets of the American West and drove up temperatures in a number of ...

©Nastya Smirnova RF/Shutterstock.com Iraq has diverse biomes, including mountains, semi-arid deserts, and marshy river valleys. For this reason, the country supports a wide range of wildlife. Sand ...

Malcaminos offer 4X4 jeep tours of Tabernas Desert from €35 (£35) per person and horse-riding treks from €40 (£34) per person, with a minimum of two people per tour.

Climate change: Brazilian semi-arid biome could lose over 90% of mammal species by 2060 Even under the best-case scenario, mathematical models suggest 87% of mammals will be left without a habitat ...

Outside of the Americas, San Miguel de Allende might just be the best kept secret in Mexico. Nestled deep in the Guanajuato central highlands of this vast country, surrounded by semi-arid desert ...

Touring the Harte Research Institute on Monday, half a dozen West Texas teens interested in science and conservation caught a glimpse of marine science in the Coastal Bend. In an HRI lab, students ...