At the end of the last Ice Age, the Sahara Desert was just as dry and uninviting as it is today. But sandwiched between two periods of extreme dryness were a few millennia of plentiful rainfall and ...

The Painted Hills Preserve — a recently opened site in Tucson Mountain Park west of the city — features lush desert vegetation, a completed walking path and a longer trail that will be under ...

Main attraction: The park is like visiting a private estate with its lush vegetation, manicured lawns, rose gardens, deciduous trees and wading pool all well-watered from natural springs. In the main ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scienitsts have pieced together a year's worth of photos from the powerful Earth-watching Suomi ...

The Himalayan Mountains are a seam on our world, marking a place where continental plates are slamming into a new land. But they’re more than that: they also mark the boundary between different ...

The Climate Shift Index (CSI), Climate Central’s daily temperature attribution system, applies the latest peer-reviewed methodology to map the influence of climate change on temperatures across the ...

SANTA CRUZ, CA--Huge colonies of seabirds accustomed to nesting on islands free of predators began disappearing when fur traders started introducing foxes onto islands in the Aleutian archipelago in ...

Chatham Beach on Cocos Island, part of what may have inspired "dinosaur island" in Jurassic World. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Filmmakers shot many of the scenes in Jurassic World and its ...

The house is hidden from three sides, and only visible from the road. Its materiality and colors were carefully chosen to blend into the surroundings and blur the line between the inside and outside.

In Mexico City, architects Ana Nuno de Buen and Luis Young created Casa Cascada to perch atop an existing 1950s concrete apartment building. The effect is stunning but integrated. Surrounded by lush ...

Fed by unusually lush vegetation, rabbits have been breeding like rabbits around Colorado, increasing the risk for what normally is a relatively rare bacterial disease in the state. Fifteen people ...