As Nebraska’s population slowly moved westward, the area, sometimes known as the Great American Desert, never became densely ...

Explore one of Oregon's most underrated but otherworldly natural areas with incredible desert views and hiking trails close ...

When people hear the word “desert”, they think of scorching heat, an extremely hot atmosphere, and unbearable temperatures all around. But the actual truth is that the condition of a dessert ...

“This land belongs to the Ngaliya people,” reads the sign at the boundary of Newhaven Reserve, a 650,000-acre cattle ranch turned wildlife refuge that’s just east of the Great Sandy Desert and bounded ...

On March 25, 2013, an astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this photo of the Great Sandy Desert in northwest Australia, showcasing linear dunes separated in a roughly regular fashion.

On March 25, 2013, an astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this photo of the Great Sandy Desert in northwest Australia, showcasing linear dunes separated in a roughly regular fashion.

But mostly, we tend to imagine a very sandy landscape. Turns out, however, that a surprising proportion of the world’s largest hot desert isn’t actually sandy at all. Just 25 percent of the ...

In June 2023, China proposed to turn the program into a fully functional and unbreakable "green Great ... the desert, Hotan's Pishan County is one of the areas most frequently affected by sandy ...

A 2010 satellite image shows dozens of golden islands covered with strange parallel lines shining among the shallow waters of a massive, half-full ephemeral lake in Australia's Great Sandy Desert.

That's how a desert can burn. When our Karajarri and Ngurrara ancestors lived nomadic lifestyles in what's now called the Great Sandy Desert in northwestern Australia, they lit many small fires in ...