In 2021, while revelers across America celebrated the fourth of July, three researchers waded through a shallow river delta in the New Mexican desert. Abby Eckland, Irina Overeem and Brandee Carlson ...

Rare DNA found in the barrens of the Sahara reveals the ancestral lineage from North Africa with widespread pastoralism ...

Ornithologist Bruce Beehler tracks down what he calls the “Magnificent Seven,” a charismatic group of migratory birds, in his ...

A new study reveals that a distinct North African human lineage lived in the Central Sahara over 7,000 years ago, during the ...

New documentary inspired by Professor Chris Benner's co-authored book “Charging Forward” explores environmental justice ...

The oldest crust on Earth, known to be unchanging, is actually being altered in real time. The North American continent is ...

About 7,000 years ago, in the Sahara, two women were buried in a rock shelter in what is now southwestern Libya. At the time, ...

Steve Lake envisions a zoo no more than 25 acres, with animals that could withstand the region’s extreme summer temperatures.

The Mojave Desert may lose and gain suitable habitat for Gila monsters. But the unathletic reptiles might be mostly stuck in the waning oases.

A country which Donald Trump says "nobody has ever heard of" is facing a 50 tariff on sending good to America, while the President ...

The Gila monster lives in the deserts of the southwestern United States ... Image by Melanie de Coster via Unsplash The kangaroo rat survives the hot, dry deserts of North America without drinking ...

New Jersey is launching the Food Equity and Economic Development (FEED NJ) Pilot Program to address food insecurity in 14 primary food deserts. The program will award up to $30 million in grants ...