Just over an hour's drive from Zion National Park lies a historic and notorious Utah ghost town famous for its beehive kilns, ...

and the gateway to Great Basin National Park, Nevada’s only national park. Surrounded by a sea of public land in the high desert, Baker’s reputation far exceeds its stature. It’s well-known ...

At night, visitors can enjoy exceptionally dark skies and excellent astronomy programs. Great Basin is home to some of the oldest living organisms in the world — bristlecone pines. These gnarled, ...

Dotting the vast, arid expanses of the Great Basin and Mojave deserts are precious springs housing ... in fact help make life possible for countless other species sharing their desert-oasis homes, ...

The California deserts — the Mojave, Colorado and Great Basin — are prime habitat for a suite of rare and endangered species adapted to survive in these sun-drenched, windy wildlands. The iconic ...

Based on current climate and land conditions, the Murray-Darling basin is reducing in size ... the Middle-East’s Saharan desert, and China’s Taklamakhan Desert. Sand dunes are formed in the Sahara ...