extends from the southwestern United States into northwestern Mexico, its landscape defined by dramatic rock formations and towering cacti. Despite their extreme conditions, deserts have long been ...

Most of the world has adopted the metric system as their official system of measurement with one major exception: the United States. “The U.S. stands out as the only major industrial nation that ...

Ari Caramanica receives funding from The National Endowment for the Humanities. Seeing the north coast of Peru for the first time, you would be hard-pressed to believe it’s one of the driest ...

There are five combinations that exist around North America. Maritime tropical airmasses: which originate over the warm ...

Lyft explains how, with medical deserts growing across the country ... minutes to get to nearby pharmacies—but it's in the rural states of North Dakota, Alaska, and Montana, and the more ...

Smaller states might have become news deserts were it not for startups and the growth of existing alternatives. Vermont is dominated by VTDigger, a 15-year-old digital site, and Seven Days ...

As the retail landscape in the United States continues to evolve, even the nation's largest brick-and-mortar retailers are ...

These closures are creating ‘pharmacy deserts,’ areas where the ratio of people to pharmacies has reached near critical levels. Indeed, data from Gophr’s ‘Prescription for Pressure ...