The Largest Hot Desert When imagining the vastness of the world, the Sahara Desert often stands out. 2 million square ...

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It sounds implausible, right? There's no way a historic ship is buried beneath the California desert. And yet the legend about a long-lost vessel has persisted for centuries. Theories range from a ...

Read CNN’s Fast Facts about the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War, an international conflict codenamed Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm.

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Lizards possess remarkable abilities. Some desert species survive with minimal water. Many lizards drop their tails to escape ...

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A rare winter storm blanketed parts of the Sahara Desert in up to 15 inches of snow on Jan. 7, 2018, new satellite images show.

From the archive:This story originally published in The Desert Sun in February 2016. “You don’t need to worry about rattlesnakes in winter. They’re all hibernating,” we were told by the ...