Asia’s Gobi desert, one of the world’s largest, is on the move. The desert straddles the border between Mongolia and China, and each year it marches south toward major Chinese cities. Google Earth ...

There are currently over 9,760 species that are considered critically endangered. Of those, over 1,300 may be extinct, and nearly 70 are considered extinct in the wild. Additionally, thanks to climate ...

Large solar farms in the deserts of China are not only producing vast amounts of electricity but also reshaping the ...

"If you want to fight the desert, there's no need to be afraid..." After a hard morning planting fresh shoots in the dunes on the edge of the Gobi Desert, 78-year-old farmer Wang Tianchang retrieves a ...

A joint research team from Okayama University of Science (OUS) and the Institute of Paleontology and Geology, Mongolian Academy of Sciences (IPMAS) has discovered a fossil belonging to a previously ...

Forget the clichés of endless sand dunes and mirages, deserts can be far more dramatic and diverse than most travellers can imagine. While everybody is aware of the Sahara that hogs the spotlight, ...

Mongolia is over four times the size of Germany, with 3 million inhabitants. Aug. 10, 2013— -- The construction of a huge mine in the middle of the Gobi Desert was supposed to catapult Mongolia ...

Thanks to a successful crowd-funding campaign, an extreme marathon runner from Scotland is adopting a stray pup he met while running a 155-mile race through China's Gobi Desert. The female dog, whom ...