By Victor Block In the mid-1800s, people traveling through a desert landscape in present-day California stopped at an oasis ...

New research in northwest Saudi Arabia has identified the existence of a network of previously unknown walled oases.

Around 4,000 years ago, a group of nomads in present-day Saudi Arabia constructed an “immense” network of defensive walls around a desert “oasis” where they eventually settled as a ...

How to save a desert oasis—before it vanishes completely. ... As we walk around Bounou, one of Mhamid’s satellite villages, Sbai tells me that of the 200 families that used to live here, ...

Previously, satellite images had suggested the presence of a “walled oasis” in the area, but this is the first time “monumental defensive ‘belt’” was actually discovered. A view of ...

Desert X 2025 will be on view through May 11 at sites across the Coachella Valley. Below is list of the 2025 participants with a brief description of their installed work.

The roughly 3-mile loop through Palm Canyon in the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park offers little to no shade but can reward hikers with a rushing spring ...

Previously, satellite images had suggested the presence of a “walled oasis” in the area, but this is the first time “monumental defensive ‘belt’” was actually discovered. A view of ...