From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a vast alien-like installation of hundreds of thousand of mirrors pointed at three towers, ...

Continue reading In 1969, paleontologists studying flora in the Green River Formation near the ghost town of Rainbow, Utah, discovered an unusual fossil they did not recognize. They named it ...

What was once the largest solar power plant of its type in the world appears headed for closure just 11 years after opening ...

Experts estimate that four-fifths of the Saudis' "fossil" water is now ... effort has brought changes to the desert and created much greater demands for water resources. Zooming in on certain ...

Visit some incredible fossil bed sites before returning ... shower water might be rationed to preserve the Gobi desert’s precious water supply. Meals are provided in a centrally located ger ...

This arid desert wash 30 minutes north of Las Vegas was once a lush wetland, home to some of the most massive and unusual species ever to walk the continent. For a quarter-million years, until about 7 ...

The nearly-complete Cosmopolitodus Hastalis fossil was found some 235 km (146 miles) south of Lima in Peru's Pisco basin, a hot, desert area famed for frequent discoveries of ancient marine species.