Containing the Sahara with Bacteria-Built Walls
The Sahara, as well as other deserts around the world, is growing, in a process called desertification that ends up displacing people and crops. The situation has become drastic in a number of...
View ArticleScientists Concoct a $2-Trillion-Per-Year Plan To Geoengineer The Sahara Desert
Now that scientists agree that humans have profoundly changed the Earth's climate, many have begun asking if we can use our globe-altering power to simply change it back.
View ArticleNASA Radar Developed for Mars Could Find Water Hiding Deep Beneath Earth...
With 884 million people lacking a reliable source of clean drinking water, droughts throughout Africa and the Middle East exacerbating already tense situations, and global…
View ArticleVideo: Panasonic Ships A Snowman 8,000 Kilometers to the Desert, In a...
Using no refrigeration, a snowman made in Japan traveled 5,314 miles to the desert of Bahrain, surviving the journey in one piece. The feat was a nice test of Panasonic’s new…
View ArticleNew Fog-Harvesting Devices Could Provide Clean Drinking Water for the World's...
Clean drinking water is arguably the most basic human necessity, yet in developing countries it’s a rare and precious resource — nearly 900 million people worldwide live without it, according to the...
View ArticleVideo: Solar Sinter Project Turns the Desert's Free Abundance of Sand and Sun...
Markus Kayser’s Solar Sinter project takes the desert’s two most abundant resources, sunlight and sand and puts them to work manufacturing glass objects. Kayser loads the…
View ArticleA 3-D Printer That Uses the Sun to Create Glass Objects Out of Sand
When design student Markus Kayser wanted to test his sun-powered, sand-fed 3-D printer, he knew the gray skies outside his London apartment wouldn't do. So he shipped the…
View ArticleHow Robots Will Do the Heavy Lifting in the Sahara and Antarctica
Already under construction, these two projects are saving humans from having to work in two of the most inhospitable environments on the planet: the Sahara Desert, and the…
View ArticleTiny Poisonous Trees Could Fight Climate Change In The Desert
Five German scientists have proposed a new strategy for mitigating the effects of climate change: turn coastal deserts into forests. Why? Forests, full of trees that…
View ArticleBig Pic: The Last Radio Antenna Arrives At Chile's Massive ALMA Telescope
High up in the Chilean desert, this 12-meter wide, ultra-precise radio telescope has just been handed over to its new home. The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter…
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