For centuries, hundreds of millions of people have relied on desert wetlands that are now disappearing. Can blending ancient ...

Every termite mound holds roughly 65 cubic yards of packed clay. The total displaced soil rivals about ...

In the middle of Mongolia’s vast Gobi Desert, a team of scientists has made an exciting discovery: the fossil of a ...

Rapid melts across the U.S. West have caused snowpack to disappear up to four weeks early in some areas — wreaking potential ...

The crew’s landing module came down slowly after separating from the return vehicle, descending on a red-and-white parachute, ...

A newly discovered fossil from Mongolia’s Gobi Desert reveals a previously unknown genus and species of Cretaceous mammal.

Four semifinalists are in the running to become College of the Desert’s next permanent superintendent/president — among them, the college’s acting superintendent. The semifinalists for COD's ...

China isn’t a destination for the faint of heart — the crowds, the traffic, and the language are daunting. This can make it ...

A camera affixed to the International Space Station recently spotted some curious symbols amid a barren desert landscape. "This caught our attention," Charles Black, the founder of the Earth and ...

Have you ever stood in a barren desert, feeling the world fall silent, only to hear a haunting, unearthly melody rising from the dunes? This isn’t a mirage or a trick of the mind. In some of the world ...

From desert-dwelling lizards to heat-loving amphibians and tropical insects, the world of cold-blooded creatures that thrive in extreme heat is fascinating and diverse. Their evolutionary adaptations ...

In Mongolia's Gobi Desert, paleontologists unearthed Duonychus tsogtbaatari, a novel therizinosaur species from 90-95 million years ago. This plant-eating dinosaur, related to meat-eaters ...