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 ...

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the wildfires in Los Angeles, and the words of writers who were drawn to the city.

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 ...

Due to potentially hazardous road conditions, all First Basin Credit Union branches in Odessa and Midland will be opening at 10 a.m. Thursday, January 9. Please visit firstbasin.com, or First ...

How do they form? Santa Anas are created by high pressure over the Great Basin — the vast desert interior of the West ...

Santa Anas are dry, warm and gusty northeast winds that blow from the interior of Southern California toward the coast and offshore, moving in the opposite direction of the normal onshore flow ...