The Gobi Desert in Mongolia is one of the more inhospitable places on Earth, and the best way in or out is by plane. When the Mongolian Government decided to exploit a gold mine in the desert, a new ...

In a quiet demonstration of its technological prowess, China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has conducted a missile defence test in the Gobi Desert where as many as 16 ballistic missiles ...

April 4 (Reuters) - The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans parts of 11 countries and covers an area comparable to ...

That’s largely the case today, but 7,000 years ago the vast desert was an altogether different place: a verdant world of trees and rivers and home to megafauna such as hippos and elephants.

Ed Miliband has approved plans for a giant wind farm to be built in the English Channel with dozens of turbines as tall as the Eiffel Tower. The wind farm, called Rampion 2, received the green ...

A view from the Takarkori rock shelter in southwestern Libya ...

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