An Icy Expanse The Antarctic Desert may come as a surprise to many as it doesn't fit our conventional idea of sand and heat.

Nick Knowles travels to the Gobi Desert, where he first sights the Namnaa horse archery academy, then visits a dinosaur museum on wheels and goes camping with author and adventurer Tim Cope.

but not all deserts fit that scorching stereotype. Nestled in northern and northwestern China and southern Mongolia, the Gobi Desert is one such anomaly. This expansive and rugged landscape gets ...

IN this volume, the narrative of the Sino-Swedish expedition to the Gobi Desert, which was at work continuously from 1927 until 1933, carries the story on for a further period of two years.

But science now knows that vast arid regions like the Sahara, Atacama and Gobi deserts are veritable time capsules that preserve evidence of long-submerged seafloors. Plate tectonics have played a ...

Kenji Kai, a meteorologist who specializes in yellow dust, reckons he was lucky when his vehicle was engulfed in a sandstorm near the Gobi Desert in Mongolia two years ago. He managed to record a ...

Polish adventurer Mateusz Waligora is returning to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia next month. Waligora plans to fat bike from the Altai region in Western Mongolia to the city of Sainshand in the East.