When the sun rises in the world's largest expanse of sand, the dunes glows gold like a painting. The desert peaks rise up ...

From sand sculptures and hidden springs to luxury hotels and designer boutiques, these landmarks are located in some of the ...

When you think of deserts, you might envision isolated wastelands confined to single nations. Yet the world's most massive arid regions defy political boundaries, sprawling across continents and ...

The Tibetan Plateau Desert is the highest desert in the world, located above 4,500 metres in Tibet. Learn its elevation, ...

The Antarctic Polar Desert, covering most of Antarctica, is the largest desert in the world.

The Empty Quarter (Rub’ al-Khali), the vast desert of the Arabian Peninsula, was not always an arid landscape. A recent study by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), King Abdullah University of Science ...

The biggest salt flat on Earth is considered by many to be the world’s largest natural mirror. A team of scientists wondered if that’s actually true, and the answer is—sort of. Reading time 2 minutes ...

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