The Algodones Dunes, straddling the borders of California, Arizona, and Mexico, may seem like an unlikely location for Mars ...

But it’s also a work of art in its own right. Set against the dramatic desert landscape in AlUla, just 14 miles from the epic architectural site at Hegra, Maraya was a joint collaboration ...

China has a small navy in the Taklamakan Desert north of Tibet, and it's using it as target practice to train its soldiers, ...

New images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar to map flows of carbon through our planet’s most precious and remote ecosystems ...

Dartmoor may look wild, but its ecosystem is collapsing. Here’s why this UK national park is facing biodiversity loss and what can still be done.

Some of AlUla’s earliest art is carved into the desert landscape itself. Thousands of years ago, Neolithic, Bronze, and Iron Age artists scrambled up rock-strewn slopes to etch images into the ...

And research from 2018 showed dingo removal could even reshape the desert landscape, as changes to vegetation alter wind flow and sand movement. Changes this large can’t be seen from the ground ...

“I think if folks could get down and really look at the biocrust, they would see how alive the desert’s soil really is,” says Sasha Reed, a USGS research ecologist.

See more images from Desert X 2023 below. Lauren Bon, The Smallest Sea with the Largest Heart (2023). Photo: Lance Gerber. Courtesy of the artist and Desert X. Torkwase Dyson, Liquid A Place (2023).