The bar was high.So when we pulled into Petrified Forest National Park, we weren’t expecting much—maybe a few scattered logs and a quick drive-through. What we found instead was a surreal blend of ...

The Yatir Forest in Israel ends at the border with Palestine. The largest human-created forest in Israel, 12-square-mile Yatir was created in the 1960s on semi-arid land with four million trees ...

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

This ambitious plan aims to transform the barren Gobi Desert into a thriving forest using advanced tree-planting techniques, water conservation methods, and sustainable land management.

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Among rain forest cultures, it’s the men who are more likely to do the heavy lifting. Rain forest cultures also are less likely to harbor beliefs about the inferiority of women; you won’t be likely to ...