After years of planning, bikepackers and gravel grinders will have a chance to ride from Mexico to Canada on the Great Plains ...

The End-Permian mass extinction killed an estimated 80% of life on Earth, but new research suggests that plants might have ...

At the Imperial Valley Desert Museum our mission: is to preserve, interpret, and celebrate the deserts of Southern California ...

This year marks the 25th year since the Ironwood Forest National Monument was proclaimed in June of 2000. The Monument boundary includes 189,000 acres of natural Sonoran Desert and includes ...

Thrips are tiny insects—their sizes range between 0.5mm and 15mm in length and many are shorter than 5mm. But the damage they ...

Monument Valley, Arizona/Utah Monument Valley, straddling the Arizona-Utah border, is an iconic symbol of the American West.

A new study reveals that a region in China's Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium, or "life oasis," for terrestrial plants ...

"It feels like something out of science fiction," said European Southern Observatory astrophysicist Julia Victoria Seidel.

The team named the new genus Bastetodon partly in reference to the cat-headed ancient Egyptian goddess Bastet, in honor of where the specimen was unearthed and of the feline-like snout of the ancient ...

French nuclear fuels company Orano and Uzbekistan's state-owned uranium producer, Navoiyuran, have formalised an agreement ...

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The trains are destinations in themselves, offering a mix of spectacular sightseeing, onboard dining and glorious open-air ...