Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cathedral grove in Palm Canyon Our Colorado Desert – which stretches from the Colorado River to Palm Springs and south into Baja ...

Oases gained 85,000 square miles, mostly from artificial expansion projects Oases lost 52,000 square miles from desertification and water scarcity Oases gained a net area of about 33,400 square miles, ...

To an astronaut today, the Earth looks like a vibrant blue marble from space. But 700 million years ago, it would have looked ...

Archaeologists confirm four walled oases in Saudi Arabia that reveal an urban and power network in the ancient desert.

The deployment of artificial reefs is often a contentious subject, but in the Gulf of Mexico, these man-made structures are considered ocean oases, supporting a variety of resident marine life and ...

Researchers confirmed a total of six different fortified walls surrounding a network of oases in the northwest Arabian Desert. The oldest wall is upwards of 5,000 years old, with some new finds dating ...

A student works at Common Ground High School, creating an educational wetland. Credit: Contributed Photos Common Ground High School sent in these photos and the following write-up about the creation ...

Just when the bedraggled traveler is about to die of thirst, a desert oasis appears, complete with greenery and all you can drink. Those movie scenes may be the stuff of imagination, but the oases are ...

Scientists have identified 38 coral reef “oases” in the Pacific and western Atlantic that have either “escaped,” “resisted” or “rebounded” from declines in coral cover, even as neighboring reefs have ...