Many climate experts see its deserts as a place to build the green-energy future. For two local activists, the price is too ...

The Pisco Basin is a hot, desert area famed for frequent discoveries of ancient marine species and was an extensive sea in ancient times, making it a reservoir of marine fossils.

A winter storm will move through the Great Basin and the Desert Southwest over the weekend into early next week. This storm may finally bring the nearly two-mon ...

The fossilized remains belong to Cosmopolitodus hastalis – an extinct mackerel shark closely related to the modern great ...

Paleontologists in Peru have discovered a 9-million-year-old fossil of Cosmopolitodus Hastalis, a relative of the great white ...

Paleontologists in Peru on Monday unveiled the 9-million-year-old fossil of a relative of the great white shark that once ...

The Santa Ana winds fanning wildfires that have killed at least 25 people in Southern California and destroyed more than ...

"There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain ...

A popular taxi rank has been shut while £2m work continues to improve Great Yarmouth bus station. Police say a man in his 30s arrested over the alleged attack has been released on bail.

Nevada's only designated National Park lies in the rugged and remote Great Basin of Northern Nevada. Its remoteness grea ...

Let’s discover the top animals that call the Great Basin National Park home, each playing an essential role in the environment. Desert Bighorn sheep. Image via depositphotos. Great Basin National Park ...

A desert doesn’t need to be sandy—it just ... and cold deserts (like the Great Basin). Hot deserts experience high temperatures, often exceeding 40∘C (104°F), while cold deserts have ...