Desiccation

The symbiotic organisms appear to be able to avoid some radiation damage.

The land beneath the former Aral Sea in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan is rising and will continue to do so for many decades. Now, scientists have an explanation that involves the sea drying up.

A new study finds that the region's extremely dry and hot conditions were about 35 percent more likely because of climate change.

A new study has found that the Great Salt Lake, which has lost 73 percent of its water, is releasing climate-warming emissions.

Fascinated by the "screaming woman" who died 3,500 years ago, researchers used CT scans other techniques to understand what might have caused her striking...

A new study found that the drying Great Salt Lake in Utah is now a major source of the gas emissions that are causing the climate to warm.

We discovered a strange rock in the Sahara we thought was a meterorite. Figuring out what it was grounded me back to Earth

Radiation damages their DNA; they're just able to repair that damage very quickly.

The highly desiccated remains of a suspected bottlenose dolphin were recently found on a beach in South Carolina after "mummifying" for weeks or even months. One expert believes the animal may have deliberately beached itself.

Back-to-back atmospheric rivers have triggered floods, snowstorms, and power outages in the Golden State.

Tardigrades, also known as water bears, can tolerate high doses of radiation, low-oxygen environments, desiccation, and both high and low temperatures under a dormant state called anhydrobiosis.

From a Booley in West Cork, one man is preserving a food culture

Indoor plants can help to purify the air inside homes, collecting moisture and absorbing harmful toxins. Wendy Rea, an expert florist and manager at

We presented the question to the director of forensic anthropology at Western Carolina University.

Observations by the Curiosity rover at Gale Crater on Mars indicate that high-frequency wet–dry cycling occurred on the early Martian surface, indicating a possible seasonal climate conducive to prebiotic evolution on early Mars.

"Their evolution was literally suspended for 40k years," wrote one scientist of the revived nematodes from a species unknown to science until now.

When people consider extraordinary plants, most probably don't spare a thought for moss. It blends in against the green background of plant life, and seems to grow everywhere—whether you want it to or not.

The invasive Stinknet plant fuels wildfires, irritates lungs and smothers native flora. 'It's everywhere' and removal efforts in Arizona can't keep up.

Geologists have long contested the structure of the Red Sea. Many regard it as an extended rift basin where two continental plates are actively moving apart, while others see it as a fully developed ocean with a mid-ocean ridge and seafloor spreading.

"Complex landscape structures" on farms could create microclimates with lower temperatures that aid bees, birds, and plants.