The Atacama Desert in Chile is a wonder in itself. It is the only true desert to receive less precipitation than polar deserts, making it the driest non-polar desert in the world and the second ...

The Sahara is the world’s largest non-polar desert, stretching across 3.6 million square miles. Satellite images from September showed huge swaths of it carpeted in green as storms pushed ...

Even bacterial life struggles to survive in the cold, dry climate of the polar desert. There’s a third less oxygen than at sea level, impairing brain function. Smells are largely snuffed out and ...

Did you know the largest desert in the world isn’t hot? It’s cold! Surprised? A desert doesn’t need to be sandy—it just has to be very dry. Antarctica is the largest desert on Earth.

Attention New England seltzer fans! Polar Seltzer is letting you have your cake and drink it, too. Last week, Worcester-based Polar Seltzer unveiled four new flavors as a part of its “Dessert ...

studying how our planet’s changing climate is affecting the polar desert ecosystem of the Canadian High Arctic. I joined a team of wolf researchers and a BBC film crew to spend three months in a ...

A true polar desert, Ellesmere gets less then 70 mm of rain and/or snow a year. During the brief summer, when the sun beats down twenty-four hours a day, the environment dries up and resembles the ...