Cheyenne Ingel, a scientist with the Desert Research Institute, says there’s a lot going on in a tree. She explains that ...

Disturbing a desert tortoise in its native habitat is not only risky for the tortoise, it's illegal, state officials say.

How to save a desert oasis—before it vanishes completely. For centuries, hundreds of millions of people have relied on desert wetlands that are now disappearing.

In a remote corner of its Xinjiang desert, China has constructed full-scale, movable mock-ups of US Navy warships, including ...

A 3.5-million-acre swath of Mojave Desert, between Ridgecrest and the Morongo Basin, has been named a sentinel landscape, a federally led effort to promote sustainable land-use near military ...

Villa Paros offers a rare cohesion of Mediterranean architecture with desert landscapes. Set on a canyon-backed lot, against ...

The home uses passive building techniques, which help reduce energy use. Architects design one-of-a-kind fort-inspired desert ...