Scotsman journalist Emma Cowing almost lost her life in the searing heat of Afghanistan. Her ordeal exposed an unwritten danger facing our troops. Here she tells her...

There is something about plastic that makes you hate it more than the most dangerous radio active waste on the planet. It is as unsafe to use it when it concerns environment issues as any other and yet we cannot stop it being used almost...

These strange contraptions are Alon Alex Gross’s fog and dew collectors – designed specifically to collect drinking water in arid and semi-arid regions. The concept of dew collection or fog harvesting is not new – these models are...

The image of parched deserts could actually change if scientists are successfully able to squeeze water out of gypsum, a rocky mineral which is abundantly found in the desert areas. This mineral contains nearly 20% of water by weight, and...

Six thousand years ago, the massive arid region dominating northern Africa was quite green, a patchwork of trees and savannas as well as many sparkling lakes.

Scientists have begun moving the Mojave Desert’s flagship species, the desert tortoise, to make room for tank training at the Army’s Fort Irwin despite protests by some...

By tapping rivers and sucking water from deep underground, developers have covered Arizona with carpets of Bermuda grass and dotted the parched landscape with swimming pools, golf courses and lakeshore...

Australia consists of hundreds of thousands of kilometers of empty space which is being put to apt use by its government. The glaring desert sun of this plain is soon to witness the world’s largest 18-hole golf course, stretching across 1,200...

Everybody loves a yummy breakfast of pancakes but if you want them as a desert, you can serve them with figs, homemade jams, bit of honey, a dollop of cream and lots of love. This is the recipe for the basic...

It looked, for a moment, like a mirage gone mad. There on the rolling sand dunes were scores of misshapen four-wheelers racing up and down, kicking up clouds of sand as they went. The first thought that leapt to my mind was that a pack of...