Chadian authorities say they have found the body of a French tourist after he went missing during a Sahara Desert festival visit.

To protect the southwest’s iconic Joshua trees, scientists are tinkering with their genetics and searching for climate havens ...

New archaeological evidence reveals that seabird guano—nutrient-rich bird droppings—was not only essential to boosting corn ...

A newly discovered sungrazing comet C/2026 A1 is heading for a perilous close encounter with the Sun in April. If it survives ...

The newly discovered sungrazing comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) will undergo an extremely close slingshot around our star in early ...

San Pedro de Atacama Desert is one of the most extreme and visually striking landscapes on Earth, located in northern Chile. Known as the driest non-polar desert in the world, it features vast red ...

Europe's ESO star-gazing organisation on Monday welcomed plans to call off building a massive green energy project in the Chilean desert which threatened to spoil its telescopes' view of the darkest ...

A well-meaning irrigation project unintentionally created ideal conditions for a hybrid pig population to grow. Now, one of India's largest protected areas faces serious ecological and human safety ...

Normally, the announcement of building a wind and solar farm is good news. In the case of Inna, however, the good news is that the project will not be implemented. The facility in Chile could have ...

AES Andes, the Chilean power generation unit of the U.S.-based AES Corp., has decided to abandon plans to develop the controversial INNA project.

Ahead of the release of Sam Raimi’s “Send Help,” revisit the stories of Alexander Selkirk, Marguerite de la Rocque, the Tongan castaways and others who endured in remote locales Gregory Wakeman - ...