As the oldest and driest desert on Earth, Chile's Atacama Desert is a treasure trove of discoveries for scientists and ...

With 3.3 million acres — the nation’s largest conserved desert landscape — Death Valley National Park can be explored in as ...

When I was four years old, I learned to “breathe underwater” — not by scuba diving in a tropical ocean, but in a sink, my father’s stiff hands forcing me beneath the surface. I can still feel the ...

NASA teams are testing drones, robot dogs, and new flight software in America’s toughest deserts to prepare for the ...

ZOUERAT, Mauritania -- There are no roads to this Sahara Desert town, just tracks in the sand. Yet it has become a holding tank for victims of people-smugglers -- Asians who set out to find a better ...

A man was found dead Saturday in a suspected homicide at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert. The man, described as a white adult, was found after 9 p.m. “lying on the ground,” the Pershing ...

The Death Valley National Park has superlatives oozing from each of its red-rock canyons and shifting sand hills. This land of surreal, Mars-like landscapes is the hottest place on the planet, the ...

EDWARDS, Calif. (KGET) — Rosario Sanchez couldn’t stop sobbing as she captured the scene of her friend’s home going up in flames. She knew her friend was trapped inside along with four children. “The ...

Between September and November, 2.41 inches of rain fell -- more than what typically falls in the desert landscape in one year.