The United States of America has had some fascinating ... Out of all the world's biomes, deserts are some of the best archaeological locations. That's because of their arid nature.

Thieves have targeted freight trains running through the deserts of California and Arizona in a string of audacious heists ...

We study the causes of “nutritional inequality”: why the wealthy eat more healthfully than the poor in the United States. Exploiting supermarket entry ... These findings counter the common notion that ...

Far from being barren wastelands, deserts are biologically rich habitats with a vast array of animals and plants that have adapted to the harsh conditions there. Some deserts are among the planet ...

More information: Md. Shahinoor Rahman et al, Dental Clinic Deserts in the US: Spatial Accessibility Analysis, JAMA Network Open (2024). DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.51625 This story is ...

Extending from the southeastern US states of Arizona, New Mexico and Texas deep into central Mexico, the Chihuahuan Desert offers a kaleidoscope of textures and colours that shape its unique ...

Banking deserts are cropping up in rural areas as banks shutter branches in remote areas, considering the majority of the US population is concentrated in cities and drives the bulk of deposits ...

It's hard to imagine that global warming would have much effect on the world's already hot deserts. But even small changes in temperature or precipitation could drastically impact plants and ...

Food deserts are areas that have a high percentage of people who don’t have access to healthy food, either due to low income, ...

Yet more than half of Clevelanders live in so-called "food deserts," where the availability of affordable, nutritious foods is limited and people experience inequalities in economic opportunity and ...