Many of the features at Petrified Forest are on a scale best appreciated by leaving the car. Plan enough time to walk among the fossil logs and Painted Desert badlands. For a half-day visit ...

With no trees, undergrowth, or official state designation, this underrated spot in Wyoming is famous for 50 million other ...

ON the western horizon of the Libyan Desert, as viewed from the summit of the Great Pyramid of Ghizeh, a conical hill stands in solitary grandeur, far removed from the route of desert travellers.

China's largest desert is now encircled by thousands of trees. The forest currently stretches over about 2,000 miles around the Taklamakan desert in China's northwestern region of Xinjiang.

Tiny, cold-blooded animals like flies depend on their environment to regulate body temperature, making them ideal "canaries ...

And that rotation is largely responsible for the distribution of every desert, forest, and swamp on the planet. So, let's do a little experiment. Let's say we reverse Earth's rotation. What then?

the desert cloud forest. These mountains are crucial to the existence of the forest, acting as a barrier that captures moisture-laden clouds from the Indian Ocean during the monsoon season ...

Now ecologists are planting saplings in the Aralkum Desert to bring trees to where water once lapped.When Maria ...

Forest flies showed increased avoidance of heat, potentially explained by higher sensitivity in their antennae's molecular heat receptors, while desert flies were instead actively attracted to ...