Global warming threatens to change the ecology of deserts: Higher temperatures may produce more wildfires that alter desert landscapes by eliminating slow-growing trees and shrubs and replacing ...

This story appears in the October 2009 issue of National ... hyperarid landscape of the central Sahara." An archaeologist at the University of Leicester, he's become a slave to the desert ...

Higher temperatures may produce an increasing number of wildfires that alter desert landscapes by eliminating slow-growing trees and shrubs and replacing them with fast-growing grasses.

Chef Melissa King and National Geographic Adventure Photographer ... sand-colored CX-50 that blends in with the area’s high desert landscape. Thirty miles northeast of Bend, the park spans ...

A lot of critters inhabit the cactus and boulder-strewn landscapes of Joshua Tree National Park. Most of them are small, wary, well camouflaged for the desert environment, and most active after ...

Chile’s famed Atacama Desert lies in the north ... long shadows accentuate the rocky, barren landscape. Photograph by Krista Rossow/National Geographic At nearly the opposite end of the country ...

As a plane soars over the high desert of southern Peru ... astronomical and calendrical purpose (she received a National Geographic grant in 1974 for her work). Reiche battled single-handedly ...