Racist “culture” explanations for African underdevelopment are falseGeography, climate, and trade shaped societies more than ...

The Sahara we know as a vast desert was once filled with rivers, lakes, and grasslands. Shifts in Earth’s orbit and climate turned the sands green in one of nature’s greatest transformations New Sam's ...

A foggy morning at Calispell Meadows on the Colville National Forest in northeast Washington. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Forest Service) Tribal lands in the Pacific Northwest are earning national ...

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Namibia has deployed more than 500 soldiers to help fight a fire that has burned through a third of the vast Etosha National Park, one of Africa’s largest wildlife reserves, Prime Minister Tjitunga ...

NEW DELHI: The UNESCO on Saturday designated India's Cold Desert Biosphere Reserve, located in western Himalayas and spread over 7,770 sq km of windswept plateaus, glacial valley and high-altitude ...

Desert Healthcare District board members expressed a desire to help the "emergency" situation regarding Blythe's at-risk-of-closing hospital, but they did not commit to serious action during their ...

As dawn breaks over mist-draped mountains in southern Oman, camel bells echo softly through the emerald valleys. Herders gather in small ...

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Stephan Elliot reveals to Deadline that Terence Stamp, the magnetic British star who died aged 87 in August, spent the final months of his life reprising his role as Bernadette, a ...

Tamanrasset sits at the geographic heart of the desert. Linked to the north by 1,200 mostly paved miles of the Trans-Saharan Highway, it dominates a network of dirt tracks stretching into Mali, Niger, ...

What is bread? You likely don’t have to think for long, and whether you’re hungry for a slice of sourdough or craving some tortillas, what you imagine says a lot about where you’re from.

Justin Stewart, an ecologist with the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks, collects a sample of soil containing mycorrhizal fungi taken at Saguaro National Park. Credit: Wyatt ...