At just over 5.3 million square miles, the Sahara desert is the world's largest hot desert, but is still smaller than both the Antarctic and Arctic deserts (yep, the Arctic also is a desert).

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Discover why Antarctica no longer has lush forests with giant ferns and how ancient fires fueled intense volcanic activity.

Arctic Desert: This is basically the area around the North Pole. It's also a cold desert, covered in snow, but it doesn't get much actual rain. It's where you'd find animals like polar bears.

Often dubbed the "Noah's Ark for plants," it preserves millions of seeds in case of catastrophe. "This place is one of the most important in the world," said Espen Barth Eide, Norway's foreign ...

“Water is the most limiting resource by far” in the desert, Johnson said, making nutrients harder for plants to get by themselves. Mycorrhizal fungi can make up for that.