To witness the region's remarkable landforms, one must visit Zhangye and Dunhuang, which played pivotal roles in the history of the Hexi ... Together, they rise like nature's own Great Wall, standing ...

Nanoscience and technology is the branch of science that studies systems and manipulates matter on atomic, molecular and supramolecular scales (the nanometre scale). On such a length scale ...

Sahara Desert, Once Lush and Green, Was Home to Mysterious Human Lineage By Will Dunham (Reuters) -The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of ...

They explore many sites like Venice in Italy, and Dunhuang and Quanzhou in China. These cities were vital hubs of the maritime and overland Silk Roads. Through their journey, these two ­children ...

Authorities have urged caution as a major weather system approaches the Northern Territory, with flood risks expected in multiple regions. A flood watch has been issued for the Tanami, Central ...

It’s hard to green the desert. Take China, or Africa’s Sahel region, for example. Their “Great Green Walls,” grand projects to beat back encroaching desert by planting trees, have required ...

If you’re visiting from out of town, make sure to bookmark my guide on where to stay in the Inland Empire. Joshua Tree National Park is in the high desert and has one of the largest concentrations of ...

The fossil was dug out of a Cretaceous sedimentary deposit in the Gobi Desert by a team of researchers from the Mongolian Academy of Sciences in 2012. Uranium-lead dating of the mineral layers ...

NAHAL ZOHAR, ISRAEL—Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have made some stunning new finds in the Judean Desert, La Brújula Verde reports. The research was part of an ...

Interestingly, long before humans walked the Earth, Mother Nature had begun carving her own Great Wall in the Gobi, with wind as her chisel. In what is now the Dunhuang Yardang (Yadan in Chinese) ...