What makes this roadside wonder even more special is its location in Oro Grande, a tiny community that barely registers on most California maps. Situated along Route 66 in San Bernardino County, this ...

A team of researchers led by the Smithsonian has discovered the oldest known pterosaur fossil in North America. Pterosaurs were flying reptiles that lived alongside dinosaurs and were the first ...

Elmer’s Bottle Tree Ranch stands as a monument to that bygone era – not by recreating it with nostalgic accuracy, but by ...

Most remarkable about this tree is its isolation: it stands alone on the floor of this expansive, windswept basin. From any ...

California has an incredible mix of coast, desert, and forest, which means you’ll run into all kinds of wildlife if you spend ...

In a Swiss pine forest, the treetops are being sprayed with mist in a bid to discover the effect that drier or wetter air has ...

As president of China, Xi prioritises work to combat desertification, visiting critically affected regions across the nation ...

There's a massive Joshua tree forest in northwestern Arizona. You can visit without the fees or crowds you'd find in a ...

New images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar to map flows of carbon ...

Scorpions are a type of invertebrate that people don't see much of in Oregon but can be found in the Beaver State. Here's ...

The proposed sale of up to 3.3 million acres of national public lands in the west was proposed by Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah. Millions of acres of national forests and other public lands could ...

Over the last five years, researchers have found that the death rate for saguaros in the Phoenix area jumped from 1% to 2% ...