A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an arid desert with no trees. By Carl Zimmer ...

The terrain is often rough, and to top it all off, there is minimal water. Desert inhabitants must be adaptable to survive these harsh conditions. As humans, to thrive in desert life, we must find ...

Our ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly hot and dry desert more than a million years ago, according to a ...

But even small changes in temperature or precipitation could drastically impact plants and animals living in the desert ... cover a quarter of Earth. Human activities such as firewood gathering ...

Sometimes it can seem like our lives are very separate from nature…That the natural world is a distant rain forest, a far-away desert ... of it by humans was having a negative impact on the ...