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 ...

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

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 Jonathon Keats, who devised the plan, hopes the camera will inspire onlookers to contemplate how humanity’s ...

An open landscape where people are visitors and nature the resident. ‘Bleak’ has always come with the promise for me of wildlife. Of seeing something unusual.

A rare deluge of rain has created new lakes in the rolling sand dunes of parts of the Sahara, one of the driest places on Earth.

Joshua trees are already struggling to reproduce in a warming climate. Replacing those lost in the York fire may be all but impossible, experts fear.

But he said he believed that displaying the bleak images at his museum could help raise awareness of the enormous ancient treasure that lies in the Chilean desert dunes.

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 ...

Considering redoing your landscaping? Here are some landscaping styles and designs to consider for your next big home splurge.

Recent population surveys show continued decline in two desert-adapted succulent tree aloe species, with conservationists fearing for the state of an understudied third species. A years-long ...

Justin Haddad’s permaculture landscape design company specializes in repurposing land to create a sustainable, edible and medicinal landscape for clients.