Once a month, retiree Abbey Carpenter leads volunteers through a field of dunes near the border, searching for the remains of ...

How an unassuming desert dwelling became a masterclass in sustainable design. When I relocated from Beijing to Scottsdale in ...

Archaeologists excavating a burial site in Israel’s Negev Desert have uncovered rare bone and ebony figurines in three early ...

Clothing and a shoe seen on the desert floor, along with the leg bone of the migrant who died in the desert which stretches from the U.S. border with Mexico. Battalion Search and Rescue seeks ...

Volunteers who search for missing or dead migrants in the Borderland fear that Trump’s new military zones could obstruct their humanitarian efforts ...

The human bones found earlier this week in a southeast-side desert area were identified as those of a Tucson man who was reported missing last year at the age of 63, authorities say. Richard ...

Geologically, the eroding desert sits atop major earthquake faults, and as the tectonic plates "unzip," says Murray, the looser silt, bones and other material fall into cracks and gullies.

Seven thousand years ago, the Chinchorro people, along the Pacific coast of South America, began to mummify their dead. Their ...

In this week's roundup of science news, Emily Kwong and Rachel Carlson talk about a newly discovered desert flower, tasting lemonade in virtual reality and prehistoric bone tools used by early humans.

Arizona's Santa Cruz River is currently imperiled. Stretching for 180 miles through major cities like Tucson and into the Sonoran desert, the Santa Cruz River is in danger of drying up because of ...