CHAITEN, Chile (AP) -- The Chaiten volcano spewed light ash on a nearly deserted village Saturday, two days after its first eruption in thousands of years....
The Sahara became the world's biggest hot desert some 2,700 years ago after a very slow fade from green, according to a new study which clashes with the theory that desertification came abruptly.
Solar power from Africa's deserts could supply all 600 million citizens currently without electricity and even export power to Europe, a green energy conference in Nairobi heard Thursday.
... -fuel plants could be grown on un-utilised desert and semi-arid lands, rather than on fertile ... need for new crop varieties that can be productive in deserts. "Kalanchoe is a good example of how plants can flourish ...
Pope Benedict XVI urged young people Sunday to reject what he said was the "spiritual desert" spreading throughout the world and to build a new age free from greed and materialism.
Scientists operating the Phoenix spacecraft say the Martian soil near the north pole landing site is similar to what can be found in the Chile desert on Earth.
A tiny woman and two children were laid to rest on a bed of flowers 5,000 years ago in what is now the barren Sahara Desert.
Vast greenhouse installations using sea water could turn deserts into lush patches of vegetation
... ' episodes during which the present-day Sahara Desert was almost completely covered with extensive grasslands ... particles, which is remarkable because today the Sahara Desert is the world's largest dust-bowl," says Rik ...
... headed to the Toys R Us in Palm Desert on Friday morning clutching their "door buster ...
... would involve covering parts of the world's deserts with reflective sheeting and they write about it in the January issue ...
... is preparing for an expedition through the Earth’s coldest desert: the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica. read ...
... . This means the so-called "brown dwarf desert" (the absence of brown dwarfs around solar ...
Australian researchers have developed an outback advice system that keeps independent desert tourists up to date with things to see and do, and road and weather conditions.
When built, immense arrays of mirrors, towers and turbines in the Mojave Desert could provide enough electricity to power 845,000 homes.
