Environment
Japan struggles to keep its 'deserts' from turning green
Due to over-reforestation, the 16-km long sand dunes along the Tottori coast have gradually shrunk to only 12% of their size 100 years ago.
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Revealing the mystery of the woman who lived alone for nearly two decades on a deserted island
A mysterious woman lives alone on the island of San Nicolas, after narrowly escaping a massacre of her tribe.
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Discover China's largest desert, a place that is considered 'easy to enter, hard to return'
As the largest desert in China today, Taklimakan has long been famous as a place
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One of the loneliest species on Earth, living 2,800m underground and surviving on radioactive energy
The cold and dry polar regions, the hot and water-poor desert regions, are considered inhospitable to most life on Earth.
Space science
Researchers discover first 'conjoined' twin planets in the universe
The ALMA radio observatory in Chile's deadly Atacama Desert has just collected incredible data from a pair of giant planets bound together in a single orbit.
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What if we turned the Sahara desert into a solar 'battery'?
Theoretically, we could meet the world's current energy needs by covering 1.2% of the Sahara Desert with solar panels.
Archeology
The most remarkable archaeological discoveries of 2024
From discovering cities hidden in dense forests to reading ancient scrolls with AI, the combination of modern and traditional techniques is shaping the future of archaeo…
Biology
Scientists discover how desert ants navigate
An international research team led by Dr. Pauline Fleischmann from the University of Oldenburg (Germany) has just discovered that the desert ant species Cataglyphis nodu…
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95% of the country is desert, how can this country feed 100 million people?
Fertile land is important to everyone, however, there are countries with large areas but very little usable land, and the ancient Egyptian civilization was exactly like…
Archeology
Peru announces crocodile fossil dating back more than 10 million years
Fossils of an ancient crocodile species have been discovered in Peru. Paleontologists believe the fossils date back more than 10 million years.
Archeology
'Snake Man' reveals 7,500-year-old civilization in West Asia
Traces of a mysterious civilization have appeared in the Al-Subiyah desert in West Asia, in the form of a strange clay head.
Biology
Here's Why This Plant Grows Super Slow: It Only Grows 3cm a Year
Unlike most flowering plants that attract bees and butterflies, the Joshua tree only mates with the Yucca moth for its entire life, lasting hundreds of years, even 1,000…
Environment
China invents giant 'net' to help cover deserts with trees, making the world admire
In the springtime in the Ulan Buh Desert of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, sandstorms rage almost every day. Trees are withered and sand is everywhere. It is a scene…
Environment
Saudi Arabia will plant 10 billion trees to green the desert
Saudi Arabia is investing in a green initiative to transform its deserts but faces challenges in turning the ambitious project into a climate solution.
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China's 'Great Wall' of Solar Power
The 133km long and 25km wide solar wall in Inner Mongolia will produce enough electricity to meet Beijing's annual needs.