TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Cousins Tanisha Tucker Lohse and Maria Francisco set off from their desert camp around dawn on most ...

Why fertile land is turning to desert. ... Severe land degradation and desertification are impacting the Earth's ability to "support environmental and human wellbeing," said a 2024 UNCCD report.

The Mojave Desert Land Trust, a Joshua Tree-based conservation group, said Wednesday that it had been swindled of $325,000 three years ago by a former employee.

For members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, the centuries-old sacred harvest of saguaro fruit from the desert around Tucson is ...

Past Loop 101 and deep into the desert foothills of Scottsdale, scattered neighborhoods back up to boulder outcroppings surrounded by saguaros and washes, lit during the day by dazzling rays and ...

Vast forests, desert land and even a volcano are among the landscapes included in what's now the largest corridor of federally protected land in the U.S.

Shannon Eddy, director of California's Large-Scale Solar Association, praised Newsom's decision, saying the project is located in an identified renewable energy development zone, and that 70,000 ...

In addition to cost savings, construction and demolition debris processors have another incentive to dump on private desert land. The state wants to keep as much material as possible out of landfills.

“It takes a lot of land.” The desert is pressing in from every direction. According to Sbai, the outer edge of the oasis moves inward by more than 300 feet each year.

A bombshell exploded a few weeks ago in the midst of tangled negotiations over the fate of the 2.7 million-acre Barry M. Goldwater Bombing Range in the Sonoran Desert of southwestern Arizona ...

The UAE has reinforced its commitment to global desertification efforts by joining several international environmental ...