According to the release, the ancient lake likely reached its largest size around 8,000 years ago during a time of heavy ...

The desert covers over 3.3 million square miles, which means it's roughly the same size as the entire United States.

Researchers believe rainfall and flooding changed the landscape of the arid desert to a green area some 8,000 years ago.

Some of the hottest advertising space is deep in the California desert, where Lady Gaga, Charli XCX, Djo, Post Malone and ...

In honor of his mother and others imprisoned at the internment camp, baseball player Dan Kwong has restored a diamond in the ...

In the Mauritanian desert, nomadic herders look for unusual rocks with a dark surface, hoping to find rare meteorites and strike it big.

The desert plains across the USA play home to a plethora of Wild West towns that went from booming mining villages to ...

U ntil the 1960s, the Aral Sea was one of the largest inland reservoirs of water in the world. Over seven decades, the lake ...

Ari Caramanica receives funding from The National Endowment for the Humanities. Seeing the north coast of Peru for the first time, you would be hard-pressed to believe it’s one of the driest ...

Scripps News takes you inside a California lab that is ensuring the effectiveness of the United States' nuclear weapons - ...