Dead Vlei, a white clay pan situated near the famous salt pan of Sossusvlei, is in fact the world’s oldest desert. Located in ...

A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an arid desert with no trees. By Carl Zimmer ...

Here's everything you need to know before visiting Joshua Tree National Park. The area that is now Joshua Tree National Park wasn’t always a desert. During the Great Ice Age, also known as the ...

Isolated in the middle of the desert or atop a remote outcropping, these settlements appear like surreal visions sitting in ...

This year’s crop of about 30 Christmas trees was packed into a large ditch left by an earlier downpour, so future rainfall will remain on site to spur the growth of native desert plants.