When desert animals face environmental extremes day in and day out, every unique anatomical feature can aid in their survival ...

Rattlesnakes and rabbits, snakes and lizards, coyotes and bobcats, and ... lions? These were just a few of the desert creatures that third-graders at Las Palmitas Elementary School in Thermal shouted ...

Southwestern states are bracing for many of their streams to lose federal safeguards under the EPA’s proposal to lift Clean ...

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As the second-largest shifting sand desert worldwide, the Taklimakan Desert (TD) represents the typical aeolian landforms in arid regions as an important source of global dust aerosols. It directly ...

Two environmental groups have gone to court to challenge the city of Desert Hot Springs' approval of a large development near Interstate 10 that would include hotels, retail shops and a 1 ...

In a new study published in Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment on Nov. 5, Prof. Zeng Fanjiang's team from the Xinjiang ...

SEARCHLIGHT, Nev. — The remote mountain from which Mojave Desert tribes believe the universe unfolds rises above a corner of southwestern Nevada defined by Joshua trees, outcroppings, and ...

The High Desert Museum announced Wednesday a new honor, the first of its kind in the region, called the Schnitzer Prize of the West, that will award $50,000 annually to an individual or small group ...

The Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge, organised by the Emirates Motorsports Organisation (EMSO) and supported by the Abu Dhabi Sports Council, has become the ...

An ultra-marathon runner from Cheshire has gone winning a race in temperatures of -35C in the Arctic to setting a new course ...