Arid land research focuses on areas with less than eight inches of annual precipitation. Such landscapes prove difficult to restore and nearly 40% of the planet consists of semi-arid or arid land ...

Mars, once a planet abundant with water, now lies as a barren, arid expanse. Its surface features reveal a history where ...

Instead, Mars' red color is better matched by ferrihydrite — an iron oxide that contains water — and so the hue must have ...

But how the Red Planet lost its water, leaving behind the arid world we see today, is still up for debate. Now, a new challenge to a recent theory surrounding vast amounts of water stored beneath ...

The Earth is home to some of the most breath-taking landscapes, but it also harbours regions so extreme that they challenge ...

Liquid water has been observed on the planet Mars, the US space agency NASA said Monday. "Mars is not the dry, arid planet we thought of in the past," Jim Green, NASA's planetary science director ...

China's Zhurong Mars rover, which has been exploring the planet's arid surface since May 2021, has made a fascinating discovery: ancient, "vacation-style" beaches. The findings, detailed in a new ...

Test your knowledge on episode six of BBC One's Asia, The Arid Heart. Think have what it ... the amazing wildlife and natural wonders of our planet’s largest continent. There are seven weekly ...