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 ...

Water harvesting from foggy air provided up to 5 liters of water a day in a yearlong Chilean desert experiment.

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 ...

Plan enough time to walk among the fossil logs and Painted Desert badlands. For a half-day visit, follow the park road from the Rainbow Forest Museum toward Pintado Point. If you can stay longer ...

But it also sits in the northernmost reaches of the dry, hot Mojave Desert. The region has essentially tapped out the Colorado River tributary it depends on now, the Virgin River. So, the big ...

As hardy as it is, the desert pupfish must struggle to stay alive against the impacts of livestock grazing, water diversions ... and restore full flows to Arizona's Fossil Creek — all waterways that ...

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 ...