A new study reconstructing the Arabian Peninsula’s ancient past adds clues to how early humans left the African continent.

Far from being barren wastelands, deserts are biologically rich habitats with a vast array of animals and plants that have adapted to the harsh conditions there. Some deserts are among the planet ...

It's hard to imagine that global warming would have much effect on the world's already hot deserts. But even small changes in temperature or precipitation could drastically impact plants and ...

Rachel Ng is an award-winning writer and editor who has been published in National Geographic, Afar, Tripadvisor, AARP, The ...

King heads to Oregon’s Smith Rock State Park in a sand-colored CX-50 that blends in with the area’s high desert landscape. Thirty miles northeast of Bend, the park spans 650 acres and features ...

struggles under the weight of a rocket at the Tripoli Rocketry Association’s major annual launch in the Black Rock Desert. This story appears in the September 2018 issue of National Geographic ...

Strips of white crisscross a desert so dry that it rains less than ... astronomical and calendrical purpose (she received a National Geographic grant in 1974 for her work). Reiche battled single ...