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While Earth is full of countless beautiful beaches and awe-inspiring mountainous landscapes, dense forest treks, and snowy expanses, few places truly feel otherworldly. The Gobi Desert is one place ...

From ancient camel caravan routes to cutting-edge solar farms, Mongolia’s Gobi Desert is revealing both its deep history and its evolving future. Recent research has mapped the Great Mongolian Road, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Desert ecosystems are some of the most richly diverse in the world and yet they are one of the most threatened ecosystems on the ...

A team of Japanese and Mongolian paleontologists have discovered the largest dinosaur footprint ever found in the Mongolian desert. The footprint is as big as a fully grown person, measuring 42 inches ...

We're in the middle of Mongolia’s Gobi Desert in July. Storms this time of year here usually involve dust. But this is a rainstorm of historic proportions. Locals say they haven’t seen so much ...

High in Mongolia's Gobi Desert, the climate is so dry and cold that glaciers shrank during the last ice age. Dating of rock deposits shows how glaciers in this less-studied region behave very ...