Compared with the Gobi Desert, the Coachella Valley is a jungle. A variety of shrub species cover our valley floor. Succulent cacti, agaves and yuccas are common on hillsides. Four tree species ...

The Gobi Desert is often nicknamed a “cold desert” precisely because of these severe cold snaps and the presence of snow on its dunes and plains during the colder months.

China is combating desertification by launching one of the world’s largest reforestation efforts — the Great Green Wall project. This ambitious plan aims to transform the barren Gobi Desert ...

The Gobi Desert is one of the most interesting places we've ever visited. Whether you're a fan of deserts or not, if you're traveling to Mongolia, the Gobi Desert should be high on your travel ...

Few places are, and feel, as sublimely remote as Mongolia's Gobi Desert, where a mystic silence reigns, velociraptors once roamed, and the near-mythic snow leopard is real.

Asia’s Gobi desert, one of the world’s largest, is on the move. The desert straddles the border between Mongolia and China, and each year it marches south toward major Chinese cities. Google ...

Meet the Gobi Bear, the World’s Rarest and Loneliest Bear Jessica Tucker July 27, 2025 Gobi bear taking a drink of water in the Gobi Desert © ...

With only granite as their bedrock, the towering trees that make up Yosemite's forests are being fed nutrients from dust as far away as China's Gobi Desert.

GOBI DESERT, Mongolia —Dr. Badamkhatan Zorigt was quiet, his fingers tracing the exposed, fossilized remains at his feet. A scattering of ribs and the tucked structure of a hind leg lay all pale ...

PHOTOS: Dog tags along for 77-miles of run across Gobi Desert This image shows extreme marathon runner Dion Leonard with the dog he nicknamed "Gobi" after he tagged along for 77 miles of his trek.

Thanks to a successful crowd-funding campaign, an extreme marathon runner from Scotland is adopting a stray pup he met while running a 155-mile race through China's Gobi Desert.