The study found that Sahara mustard can overtake desert plant communities, making them less diverse and less stable in an increasingly unpredictable environment.

In the Mojave Desert, bighorn sheep rely on water hauled in by volunteers.

Why is the smell of Arizona's monsoon so distinctive? It releases the aromas of the desert, one ecologist says.

Snow fell at an elevation of 9,500 feet in the Atacama Desert of Chile, the world's driest nonpolar desert. ALMA / Felipe Besser Last week, astronomers stationed at the Atacama Large Millimeter ...

How—and why—did it become a barren desert today? A study led by University of Chicago planetary scientist Edwin Kite puts forth a new explanation for why Mars never seems to stay balmy for long.

Arizona Athletic Grounds in Mesa, Ariz., has every sport imaginable, plus a cryochamber. The father and son co-founders await sentencing for fraud, and bondholders are out of luck.

The desert is getting too hot for the saguaro cactus Arizona's saguaro cactus has evolved to thrive in the extreme climate of the Sonoran Desert, but after decades of rising heat, even these ...

Residents of the world's driest desert, the Atacama in northern Chile, woke up Thursday to a jaw-dropping spectacle: its famous lunar landscape blanketed in snow.

Cool Desert Nights returns to Richland this weekend, bringing classic cars, live music, food vendors and road closures to Richland’s George Washington Way.

Residents of the world's driest desert, the Atacama in northern Chile, woke up Thursday to a jaw-dropping spectacle: its famous lunar landscape blanketed in snow.

A walk in the desert and a curious discovery could have revealed that the secrets of alien life grow in the harshest conditions on Earth in the form of lichen.

Crimson Desert's controls remain its true hurdle. All the coolest moves require pressing two to three buttons at once. Launching Kilff in the air?