This video shows a wide desert landscape in Dasht-e Lut, Iran, featuring large rock formations rising from a flat sandy surface. The terrain is dry and mostly empty, with long stretches of sand and ...

Scientists are excited over a recent discovery of "black mesas" in the Sahara desert that appear to be hundreds of millions of years old. The are was discovered in the southern Mauritania region of ...

This video shows a rocky desert landscape in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia, filled with towering sandstone formations shaped by erosion and strong desert winds over thousands of years. Massive stone ...

Chile's Atacama Desert, which gets less than 5 millimeters (0.2 inches) of rainfall each year, started to form more than 40 ...

Although there are other coastal deserts bounded by cool ocean currents (e.g., the Atacama, the Baja, etc.), the Namib is the only desert in the world where endemic flora and fauna have evolved in ...

A research team led by Professor Xin Wang from Lanzhou University and Professor Fahu Chen from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has uncovered new insights into ...

Desert varnish is a micron-thin dark coating that develops over millennia on rock surfaces in arid and semi-arid regions. Composed primarily of manganese and iron oxyhydroxides interspersed with clay ...

Desert pavements are widespread geomorphological features characterised by a tightly interlocking surface layer of coarse clasts that protects underlying finer sediments. These pavements form through ...