Flames have burned for more than half a century inside a natural-gas crater near Darvaza in Turkmenistan’s Karakum Desert.

Thirty-five years after the U.S.-led military coalition wrested Kuwait from Iraqi occupation, a memorial to honor those ...

When we hear the word "desert," most of us picture the blistering heat of the Sahara, Death Valley, or a dusty stretch of ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com. How hot does it get in the desert? – Henry, age ...

The largest hot desert in the world is vast and desolate, yet the Sahara is also home to a diverse array of plant, animal, and human life. It is the biggest desert of its kind in the world — almost as ...

A peer-reviewed study's climate models project the Reno-Sparks area's dominant biome could be classified as desert in the ...

California’s biggest wildfire of the year — burning through delicate Joshua tree forests along the California-Nevada border — is an unusual desert blaze being fueled in part by the rapid growth of ...

Eighty-five miles from the small town of Moab, Utah, located on the Colorado Plateau in the southwest of the US, soil ecologist Rebecca Finger-Higgens is hopscotching on copper-toned sandstone to ...