Area 51 fit the bill perfectly. It was in the Nevada desert near a salt flat called Groom Lake. No one knows exactly why it's called Area 51, but one theory suggests it came from its proximity to ...

After the St. Francis Dam disaster of 1928, engineers applied lessons learned to expansive dam projects in the American West. Beginning in the 1930s, large dams were built on important watersheds ...

Actor John Barrowman says how he drove to the middle of an American desert to take his own life in the wake of his career imploding. The Torchwood star has barely worked since claims he exposed ...

Early European explorers found the Plains a very hostile environment, and the area was marked on early maps as the 'great American desert'. One American explorer, Major Stephen Long, declared ...

Quid Novi will be held at The Forge on Tuesday, and a program on “Watering the Great American Desert” will be held at the ...

Two little animals of the Mohave Desert have evolved remarkable adaptations to heat and aridity. Each has adapted in its own way, which apparently enables them to live together without competing ...

A new genetic analysis shows that they are most closely related to the North American desert iguana, having separated about 34 million years ago, around the same time that the islands emerged from ...

Even though The American Express is the dominating event in the Coachella Valley golf scene, it is hardly the end of the golf season in the desert. In fact, The American Express is just the ...

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In the Arizona desert, James Turrell is creating one of the most ambitious artworks in American history. Here’s an exclusive look Photographs by Michelle Groskopf; Text by Wil S. Hylton It was a ...

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has blocked the execution of convicted El Paso 'Desert Killer' David Leonard Wood, amid lack of DNA evidence.