Sand scorpions, nocturnal hunters who spend their days in burrows, also leave distinct tracks.

The Great Basin National Heritage Area is a bleak, lonely place. Lost in the West Desert between Utah and Nevada, surrounded by towering peaks and wide-open skies, it's remote, sparse, and empty ...

When you picture Arizona, a brown, bleak desert might come to mind, but this part of the state features diverse terrain, including petroglyphs, running water, a lake, washes, man-made canals ...

This Camera Is Taking a 1,000-Year-Long Exposure Photo of Tucson’s Desert Landscape ... “Most people have a pretty bleak outlook on what lies ahead,” says Keats.

The literature on vegetation restoration in the Mojave Desert “is a tale of failed experiments,” Hughson said, noting that recovery efforts to replant Joshua trees after the Dome fire had not ...

Sometimes words fall hopelessly short. This might explain the silences between the two botanists as their vehicle crunches over a gravelly Richtersveld moonscape, a desert that straddles the South ...

The apparent bleakness of a landscape, then, isn’t something I see as a problem. Quite the opposite. The trouble with ‘bleak’ is much more about how all too often, wild has been driven out.

The Sahara Desert flooded for the first time in decades. Here’s what it looks like By Laura Paddison, CNN ... watery landscape amid the palm trees and scrubby flora.

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 ...