The team suggests they do so by obtaining water from mineral gypsum. The implications of this discovery extend far beyond ...

Researchers speculate that ancient rivers might have once flowed through the Atacama, leaving behind gypsum from which the microbes now draw water, echoing potential past conditions on Mars. "The ...

With an extreme climate and little life, the unique rock formations and reddish hue of the Devil's Desert in Argentina would ...

Because gypsum dissolves easily in water, rain would normally wash it away and carry it to the sea. In this part of the Chihuahuan Desert, however, the land forms a basin, trapping the mineral; water ...

BILLINGS, Mont.— The mining company Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua has withdrawn its plan for gypsum mining exploration in southern Montana’s Pryor Desert. The plan would have disturbed Jurassic Period ...

Now Clark County is seeking to further weaken the conservation plan through a rider on proposed federal public lands legislation that would allow destruction of 296,000 additional acres of Mojave ...