Far from being barren wastelands, deserts are biologically rich habitats with a vast array of animals and plants ... becomes blanketed in wildflowers. Desert plants may have to go without fresh ...

The Sahara desert is extremely hot during the day and cold at night but others, like the Gobi desert, can be a lot colder. A hot desert is often covered in sand and the plants and animals that ...

Africa's Sahara Desert may be considered a vast expanse of barren sand with limited vegetation, an extreme environment for plants and animals to thrive, but life always finds a way.

Researchers in China have assessed the impact of using up to 50% of the Sahara desert for the deployment of large scale solar power plants and have found these may impact the global cloud cover ...