NEW DELHI: India will have 13 UNESCO Biosphere Reserves with the UN body on Saturday designating the country’s Cold Desert Biosphere Reserve for that list. Twenty-six new sites have been added during ...

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You probably saw a multi-colored climate map at least once in school. You might have pored over it, fascinated. Was Antarctica really a cold desert? And why was so much of Russia listed as tundra?

Nature is full of surprises, and we have known this for a while now. There are events that astonish the human eye and ...

The road into Pin Valley does not ease you in. From Kaza, the last town in Spiti with a functioning ATM and mobile signal, the route to the valley floor drops and climbs in ways that make the vehicle ...

What would you do if you had plenty of water when you did not need it, but too little when you needed it most? That is a problem faced by farming communities in Ladakh, India’s spectacular ...

When you picture a desert, you probably imagine a vast, empty landscape far from any water. But surprisingly, some of the driest places on Earth lie right beside the ocean. Both the Atacama, in Chile, ...

A desert is one of the Earth’s biomes with a specific climate and its own types of plants and animals. About one fifth of the Earth’s land surface is classified as desert and they are found on every ...

A study led by Prof. Zhang Daoyuan from the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography (XIEG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed crucial molecular insights into the cold tolerance of ...