Can a simple structure fight hunger in the desert? In the Sahel, the Half Moon water harvesting technique is transforming ...

Tracing the biblical Exodus route through the desert, one woman found a story of endurance and the unseen labor that makes survival possible ...

Amid shifting sands punctuated by palm-fringed oases, the AlUla Arts Festival brings the long history of Saudi Arabia’s desert ...

A Mystery Phone, Found in the Desert, Slowly Reveals Its Secrets ...

I was briskly walking down the main drag of a swanky neighborhood in Seattle when I saw a faded, old-timey lithograph in the window of an art store. It was a landscape with a fortress built into the ...

China accelerates desert restoration: 3.5 billion-year-old microbes stabilize sand and protect ecosystems in months.

Petroglyphs on sandstone at a national park in Chad bear witness to wildlife that once roamed the area before the continent’s ...

Researchers analyzed 59 years of data to show that adding bacteria to desert sand can rapidly create new soil.

The Peugeot 103 is iconic in Morocco: a symbol of social mobility. But my rider, a living sculpture, is so overstimulated he can’t choose which way to go – and ends up going nowhere’ ...

There was once a separatist community in the middle of the desert — made up entirely of women — outside of Tucson. It was ...

Sirāt takes audiences on a wild, nerve-jangling journey through the Moroccan desert. Its director, Oliver Laxe, tells us that ...

What happens when a group of children attempt to build their own society in an isolated location? Would they create a utopia or devolve into chaos? Adolescence screenwriter Jack Thorne’s primetime ...