As if braving the frigid February temperatures hasn’t been bad enough, Chicagoans have been in the depths of a serious dry spell. While the sub-zero temperatures—which contributed to la… ...

A seasonally dry lakebed, the Alvord Desert is 11 miles long and six miles wide, hemmed in by spectacular Steens Mountain to the west and a low ridgeline to the east, with sagebrush scrublands and ...

Rain man! Burning Man is a washout with organizers forced to close the gate into the site for final weekend as torrential downpours turn usually bone dry desert into a slippery 'muddy paste' ...