From a sprawling botanical museum in Arizona to a cliffside succulent sanctuary in France, these gardens prove the desert is ...

(Reuters) -The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans parts of 11 countries and covers an area comparable to China or the ...

Not many books come with ethical presumptions, but a spectacular recent publication starts with one: “’The Deserts of California’ presumes that hope, like healing, relies on time. If there is time, ...

Have you wandered in the wilderness, the sagebrush desolation,The bunch-grass levels where the cattle graze?Have you whistled bits of rag-time at the end of all creation,|And learned to know the ...

Deserts are often dismissed as empty wastelands of sand and sun, but these arid landscapes hide some of the most perplexing ...

"Our new study revealed that vegetation reconstruction in arid deserts is an effective solution for preventing desertification. Among which, a reasonable plant configuration method is the key to ...

The new technique will map the top of the aquifer, called the 'water table,' spanning areas as large as hundreds of kilometers using a radar mounted on a high-altitude aircraft. According to the ...

The arid desert landscape of Death Valley is not the obvious place to find water. Yet it’s here, in one of the planet’s hottest and driest places, that Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers ...

One of the strange, small reptiles living within the giant deserts of Southern Africa is the barking gecko. It is strange to ...