Global warming threatens to change the ecology of deserts: Higher temperatures may produce more wildfires that alter desert landscapes by eliminating slow-growing trees and shrubs and replacing ...

This story appears in the October 2009 issue of National ... hyperarid landscape of the central Sahara." An archaeologist at the University of Leicester, he's become a slave to the desert ...

Higher temperatures may produce an increasing number of wildfires that alter desert landscapes by eliminating slow-growing trees and shrubs and replacing them with fast-growing grasses.

A sun-swept corner of the Painted Desert draws more than 600,000 visitors ... Where you now see ravens soaring over a stark landscape, leathery-winged pterosaurs once glided over rivers teeming ...

From camel trekking and sandboarding to geodesic domes and yoga retreats, these striking desert destinations offer something ...

As a plane soars over the high desert of southern Peru ... astronomical and calendrical purpose (she received a National Geographic grant in 1974 for her work). Reiche battled single-handedly ...

This story appears in the April 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine ... fissures in the walls and ceilings, revealing a desert landscape outside. Nix says she and Gerber agree on most ...

This story appears in the February 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... In the sweltering desert, indoor ski slopes are dusted in snow and flower gardens bloom.

This story appears in the July 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Making places beautiful is not enough for Kate Orff. The landscape architect also wants to make them adaptable to climate ...