China is executing the most ambitious ecological engineering project in human history, planting 100 billion trees across an area larger than Western Europe to stop the Gobi Desert from swallowing ...

Compared with the Gobi Desert, the Coachella Valley is a jungle. A variety of shrub species cover our valley floor. Succulent cacti, agaves and yuccas are common on hillsides. Four tree species adorn ...

The merciless sun and grueling hills of the Gobi savaged my taxed legs. In just three days, the Gobi Desert had already robbed me of my customary bravado. I found myself among a determined band of 109 ...

A satellite sent into orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert on Friday is expected to help provide ...

We're in the middle of Mongolia’s Gobi Desert in July. Storms this time of year here usually involve dust. But this is a rainstorm of historic proportions. Locals say they haven’t seen so much ...

Poke fun at Google Glass all you want, but it does do one thing pretty well: capture first person video. Take this one for example, by Aki Watanabe, a student at the American Museum of Natural History ...

We came out of Ulaanbaatar a short while after daybreak, two Land Cruisers a half-mile apart headed south, and soon we had left behind the half-finished tenements and coal smoke of Mongolia's capital.

Gigantoraptor was unearthed from the deserts of Mongolia as a giant among creatures typically thought to be much smaller ...

There are currently over 9,760 species that are considered critically endangered. Of those, over 1,300 may be extinct, and nearly 70 are considered extinct in the wild. Additionally, thanks to climate ...

What does the Yosemite National Park forest have in common with the Amazon rainforest? A food supply from a far-off place. During California’s rainy season, climate scientists say, dust from as far ...