Smoke from the Madre Fire in San Luis Obispo County could potentially bring poor air quality to the High Desert over the July ...

The Arizona Republicans pushing for a desert version of Alligator Alcatraz seem eager to throw immigrants with no criminal ...

For hundreds of years, the Hockomock and surrounding areas, like Freetown Forest, have been a hotspot for reported ...

She’s covered the outdoors, travel, the environment, and food for 15+ years, and is the author of four Moon travel guides to ...

China has finished a 46-year campaign to encircle its largest desert with trees, part of national efforts to end desertification and curb the sandstorms that plague parts of the country during the ...

To combat desertification, China has encircled Taklimakan Desert with a sand-blocking green belt! This green development is a crucial part of the Three North Shelter Forest Program (TNSFP), which ...

Florida athletic director Scott Stricklin recently discussed $500 million in upcoming deferred maintenance on the school's ...

From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a vast alien-like installation of hundreds of thousand of mirrors pointed at three ...

Twentynine Pines in the California desert, as well as Joshua Tree National Park, were placed under a warning for quarter-sized hail and 60 mph winds on Tuesday. So was Las Vegas.

Every winter, when sunlight hits at the right angle, visitors to Virginia's First Landing State Park are treated to a mesmerizing rainbow light show courtesy of the park's bald cypress swamp.

URUMQI - The Taklimakan Desert, known as the "Sea of Death," has been completely encircled with a sand-blocking green belt stretching 3,046 km, said local authority in Northwest China's Xinjiang ...

Two swamp coolers at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center stopped working Sunday, Vance said. She didn’t specify when High Desert or Jean Conservation Camp first began experiencing problems ...