Cat Brosnan, an Irish research scientist, discovers the implacable cruelty of this rule as she lands in a Namibian desert community, where a capricious water source means that an agonising death ...

Specific brain regions involved in triggering thirst are strongly suppressed in hibernating ground squirrels, even during the ...

"We know it's bad water, but we don't have anywhere else, we're dying of thirst." A former oil engineer, David Bojo Leju, has told the BBC World service that flooding in the area is washing ...