Imagine a landscape so barren it resembles Mars itself, where some weather stations have never recorded a single drop of rain in their entire operational history. This isn't science fiction – it's the ...

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Despite the desert environment of the Coachella Valley, most of the landscaping here is predominantly made up of non-native and even tropical plants. Although aesthetically pleasing, these plants, ...

You might think of Australia's arid center as a dry desert landscape devoid of aquatic life. But it's actually dotted with ...

This post was updated Oct. 31 at 8:19 p.m. The crowd was anything but barren when listening to Forrest Gander read his work about life in a desert. Gander, an author and an emeritus chancellor for the ...

It may appear to be an unusually small, inquisitive little house tabby — but the black-footed cat is known as the deadliest feline in existence, rampaging across desert and savanna ecosystems and ...

This story, “Tracking El Grande,” appeared in the February 2007 issue of Outdoor Life. In the pale dawn light, Valo Velazquez heads into a chill north wind blowing across Mexico’s Sonoran Desert. A ...

If fashion is the mirror of society, the recent Zoobilee gala in support of The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens confirms that the stylish set of the Coachella Valley is decidedly taking a walk on the ...

This striking satellite photo shows a quartet of near-identical glaciers perched between mountainous peaks on a barren island in the Canadian Arctic. The elongated ice masses, which are threatened by ...