Dead Vlei, a white clay pan situated near the famous salt pan of Sossusvlei, is in fact the world’s oldest desert. Located in ...

The Sahara is often thought of as the driest desert in the world, but there is in fact a desert that is even older and more ...

Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...

Southwestern desert birds live on the edge but have adapted over time. Now the evidence suggests they are struggling to adapt to rapid climate change.

Two farmhouses and the region’s iconic Little Desert Nature Lodge were lost to the flames sparked by dry lightning at Little ...

Our ancestor Homo erectus was able to survive punishingly hot and dry desert more than a million years ago, according to a new study that casts doubt on the idea that Homo sapiens were the first ...

How dry is it in Southern California? See the drought levels and recent rainfall totals for several counties in the region.

While discussing the fires on his podcast, Rogan took aim at "a really goofy thing that people on the left are talking about.

Nearly 99% of the county is affected by the drought, and it recorded its eighth-driest December in the past 130 years. Paris Barraza is a trending reporter covering California news at The Desert Sun.

A thousand feet beneath the desert, the United States conducts experiments to verify that its weapons work. But some fear a ...

The streak fell just a day short of tying the record of 160 days, which was set during the Nixon Administration.