Microbes that flourish in boiling hydrothermal vents, bone-dry desert sediments, and radiation-blasted Antarctic rock are ...

And as David Attenborough narrates in footage from the BBC TV series Planet Earth filmed in Mauritania, “swarms join up with ...

Where there’s a tree, there’s usually a forest. But not always. A biologist describes some of the loneliest trees on planet Earth. When we think about isolation in nature, we usually picture islands ...

Antarctica, the world’s largest desert, challenges the common idea that deserts are always hot. Despite being covered in ice, ...