The beauty of Western Australia’s wildflowers runs deep. These plants have an important ecological role and a cultural heritage.

Over a thousand years ago, the hundreds of giant geoglyphs carved into the desert in northern Chile were a bustling scene.

Some art museums overawe with the sweep of their collections. Others thrill with a few perfectly placed masterworks. The best of them embody their cities’ ambitions and fulfill an ideal ...

An ephemeral lake in Algeria last month. Image: Michala Garrison, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey Behold Sebkha el Melah, an ephemeral lake in Algeria, seen from space.

To attend the meeting, Carrington and his neighbors had driven more than two hours from their homes in Desert Center and Lake Tamarisk, unincorporated communities of Riverside County not far from ...

More American consumers are facing a similar plight as independent and national retail pharmacy chains close stores, leaving them in what is dubbed a "pharmacy desert." On Friday morning ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has new insights into how Mars might have changed from a potentially habitable, water-rich planet to an absolutely uninhabitable desert. The search for life on Mars goes ...

The vast sand dunes of the Sahara Desert in North Africa are now accompanied by shimmering, expansive lakes. No, it is not a mirage, but the result of intense downpours in the desert over Sept 7 ...

Eoghan Daltun rewilded his land in West Cork and wants more of Ireland to do the same. By Cara Buckley Cara Buckley visited Eoghan Daltun at his home in West Cork, which overlooks the Atlantic and ...

Lakes appearing in the Sahara desert captured in satellite images after a cyclone dumped a years' worth of rain on northern Africa in just a few days. Lakes have appeared in the Sahara after a ...

Oracle State Park, beyond its role as an art venue, is a 4,000-acre wildlife refuge with miles of hiking trails and picnic ...