The Sahara is the world's most famous desert, a land of rolling dunes through which camel caravans once roamed from Marrakech to Timbuktu and beyond. At roughly 3.3 million square miles, and occupying ...
A satellite photo from July shows intricate snowy stripes painted across the Atacama Desert in Chile. The icy weather temporarily put the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) ...
Did you know that a desert doesn't have to be hot or sandy? In fact, many of the world's harshest deserts are freezing cold.