Nestled in northern and northwestern China and southern Mongolia, the Gobi Desert is one such anomaly. This expansive and ...

In politics, desert has become a useful noun, while adjectives help tell the story. As noted last week, a child care desert ...

Officials at The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens say the idea for World Desert Day began when they realized that unlike World ...

Emma Pinchbeck acknowledges challenges with new technology as she tells MPs that changes needed for UK to meet climate change targets ...

Homo erectus outlived and outadapted other hominins by mastering life in extreme environments of Eastern Africa, a new study ...

Protecting and conserving our natural heritage, predicting weather and environmental conditions, preventing and managing pollution, promoting clean growth and a sustainable environment for present and ...

To reconstruct the environmental conditions during the time of Homo erectus, the research team used advanced modeling ...

Here's a look at locations in the United States that are in a fire-risk area, based on the Federal Emergency Management Agency's National Risk Index: First Street Foundation, a climate nonprofit ...

In a nutshell Scientists have discovered that Homo erectus adapted to extreme desert conditions in East Africa one million years ago – far earlier than previously thought possible for early humans ...

The desert is one of the harshest environments to live in. It can be extremely hot during the day and freezing cold at night. There is sparse vegetation and little shade. The terrain is often rough, ...

Research co-led by the University of Maryland reveals that drought and increased temperatures in a CO 2-rich climate can dramatically ... to linger in the root zone where it mixes with existing ...

Reference: “Homo erectus adapted to steppe-desert climate extremes one million years ago” by Julio Mercader, Pamela Akuku, Nicole Boivin, Alfredo Camacho, Tristan Carter, Siobhán Clarke, Arturo Cueva ...