This is just what we do. The boy was eight or nine years old; he doesn’t remember exactly. He lay on the desert floor, staring at the stars on a cloudless night, gripping the hand of the man — the ...

TOOELE, Utah — Just across the mountains from the Salt Lake Valley at the Tooele Army Depot, controlled detonations regularly shake the desert floor. “We’ve been doing this since 1942,” said Wade ...

The rocky and sandy mountains of Zagora, Morocco, rise dramatically from the arid desert floor like natural fortresses shaped ...

I took a drive to Phoenix, Arizona, just a week into May to see my son and his family. What made it a phenomenal drive was that much of the desert in both California and Arizona was receiving ...