Spanning 47,877 square miles, the Mojave Desert is spread out between California and Nevada — with small parts of it spilling into Utah and Arizona. Despite crossing four states, it's actually ...

There’s a certain strain of modern American plays in which family members dedicate themselves to saying the most outrageous things to one another, in an implacable effort to slit each other’s ...

Deserts aren’t just hot—they’re thermally extreme landscapes where physics, biology, and climate intersect. Discover why these sun-scorched places turn icy cold at night, how life adapts to survive, ...

There it is high, dry and cold, a true desert. Our journey begins in Potosi. In the 17th century during the Spanish colonial era, it was the third largest city in the world, and the richest.

Perfectly designed to combat the desert winds and harsh climate of the northern Sahara, this oasis town – a Unesco World Heritage site known as "the pearl of the desert" – is one of the Sahara ...

A young climate activist holds a placard to advertise a local photo exhibition on climate change in the main business center of Leh town in the cold desert region of Ladakh, India, Monday, Sept.19 ...