Last weekend's Desert Trip is on its way to becoming the highest-grossing concert event ever, having moved advance tickets worth more than $150 million. Those who attended the festivities in Indio, ...

Over 100 years ago, cousins Susie Keef Smith and Lula Mae Graves embarked on numerous explorations of the desert between Mecca and Blythe, documenting what they encountered with photographs. Both ...

Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Taking a moment in the shade, 1947. Taking a moment in the shade, 1947.Loomis Dean—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Utah’s ...

Although the extreme heat across the Sonoran Desert of northern Mexico and the southwestern part of the United States is about to return for another summer, the weeks leading up to summer in the ...

For a few fleeting hours Sunday, people perched in the arid heights of northwest Algeria caught sight of something rarely seen: the Sahara Desert, shrouded in white. Residents of Ain Sefra, a small ...

“Modern architecture has had notable exponents in Palm Springs since the first houses of Neutra and of Clark and Frey early in the 1930s. Because such architecture is a continuing evolution, each year ...

A desolate stretch of the Mojave Desert has been transformed by hundreds of thousands of mirrors into the largest solar power plant of its type in the world. The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating ...