The Taklamakan desert

The Taklamakan desert is one of the largest deserts in the world, just a little smaller than the popular African Sahara desert. It currently covers about 130.300 square miles of…

If we get rid of mosquitoes, what next?

There are 3,500 named species of mosquito, of which only a couple of hundred bite or bother humans. They live on almost every continent and habitat, and serve important functions…