Ice covers the Sahara Desert for just 4th time in 50 years
On Tuesday (Jan. 19), one of the world's driest places awoke to an otherworldly dusting...
Omanis revive memory of village swallowed by desert
Located at the bottom of a valley nearly 400 kilometres (250 miles) southwest of the...
How the Trump border wall sapped a desert oasis dry
A newly built section of the US-Mexico border wall lines the entire southern edge of...
UCLA study of threatened desert tortoises offers new conservation strategy
In Nevada's dry Ivanpah Valley, just southeast of Las Vegas, a massive unintended experiment in...
High genomic variability predicts success in desert tortoise refugees; could inform conservation
Tortoise refugees with the highest genetic variation are far more likely to survive conservation translocation...
Study of threatened desert tortoises offers new conservation strategy
Large scale translocation site. Credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service In Nevada's dry Ivanpah Valley,...
Who set up this mysterious metal monolith in Utah desert? (It’s not aliens.)
Who embedded a large metal monolith in the remote Utah desert? State wildlife officials are scratching...
Adorable ancient sea cows once swam through now-bone dry Egyptian desert
About 40 million years ago, a gentle marine giant glided through the water in what...