Far from being barren wastelands, deserts are biologically rich habitats with a vast array of animals and plants ... fast-growing grasses. Many desert plants can live for hundreds of years.

A hot desert is often covered in sand and the plants and animals that live there are adapted to live in very hot and dry conditions. Wow! It looks like it hardly ever rains here. Incredibly ...

The semi-arid Kalahari Desert stretches over parts of Namibia, South Africa, and Botswana. It’s an ecological wonderland that ...

A newly discovered plant found by a national park volunteer in the Texas desert is a small, fuzzy flower that pokes up between rocks. With its limited range, this species could be threatened by ...

But even small changes in temperature or precipitation could drastically impact plants and animals living in the desert. In some cases global warming is predicted to increase the area of deserts ...

People, plants and animals have adapted and learnt to live ... and Ferne explains how Bedouin people have adapted to live in desert conditions. This clip is from the series Ecosystems and Biomes.

Two Indigenous food educators showcased the abundance of the Sonoran Desert during a tour for the Society of Environmental ...

In northern Namibia, along the remote and treacherous Skeleton Coast, the dunes of the Namib Desert stretch far inland. A diversity of animals and plants - many of them endemic to the region - live in ...

Little rain falls in the Chihuahuan, but the Rio Grande River - known as the Rio Bravo in Mexico - flows through the desert, providing a lifeline for all these animal and plants species, and the ...