TO the ordinary air traveler winging across the U.S. Southwest, the great American desert still seems an arid and forbidding waste of sand, dry lake beds and jagged rock mountains. But to the ...

Imagine a landscape so barren it resembles Mars itself, where some weather stations have never recorded a single drop of rain in their entire operational history. This isn't science fiction – it's the ...

Spending time with a Bedouin tribe reveals a way of life shaped by nature, tradition, and survival in the desert. From herding camels to cooking over open fires, every moment reflects a deep ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 2017, a team of scientists from Germany trekked to Chile to investigate how living organisms sculpt the face of the Earth. A local ...

If you have any questions about how the plants and animals of Southern California's deserts are faring as the Earth gets hotter and drier, Jim Cornett is a good bet to have the answers. Roadrunners, ...

In the Mojave, humans are reminded of our smallness, our naïveté, our transience. By Meg Bernhard On a frigid March morning in 2022, a friend and I were visiting the Mojave National Preserve in ...