Deserts

The impact of airborne dust on our climate is being determined.

An oasis near Death Valley gets water from an aquifer that sits directly beneath the Nevada Test Site, which hosted nuclear bomb tests over four decades.

A University of Arizona ecologist studies how climate change is impacting vegetation in the Sonoran Desert.

A 35-mile rift in the desert of Ethiopia will likely become a new ocean eventually, researchers now confirm.

Sandfish lizard uses wave-like motion to move through sands of Sahara.

Solar evaporation ponds in the Atacama Desert of Chile can be seen from space.

Scientists have deliberated the question for years.

Desert pavement is the oldest known vast expanse of surface area.

In a bone-dry desert, scientists find water. And lot of bones.

Areas of low productivity in the ocean are growing, possibly due to warming waters.