Tiny soil animals survive harsh desert conditions, revealing hidden life and climate driven survival strategies underground.

Prolonged droughts followed by sudden bursts of rainfall -- how do desert soil bacteria manage to survive such harsh conditions? This long-debated question has now been answered by microbiologists.

A new study shows that resilient and remarkably diverse populations of organisms can persist in the soil despite harsh and ...

Scientists have studied the driest regions of the Atacama Desert to understand whether life could exist on Mars ...

RED DESERT — Wildlife biologist Tom Christiansen stood atop a ridge and gestured to a sea of sagebrush stretching south for miles before giving way to open patches of ancient seabed dirt and the vast ...

Moab • The sandstone towers near Castle Valley glowed as a few rays of evening light cut through the clouds, but Sasha Reed’s eyes were turned to the ground. A mottled crust covered the deeply ...