desert

It’s a massive solar array slated to be built nearby in the Nevada desert.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

It’s a busy town where there are lots of people, lots of businesses, lots of traffic, the hectic pace of modern life — but still, the desert has its pull.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

I had been expecting to reach her at an improbable desert outpost, like a Death Valley library with Wi-Fi, but instead reached her in Orange County.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

"When we came, this farm was a wildlife desert," she says.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

“Plenty of sense, by God, plenty of sense,” said Samir, grabbing the straps of Rostam’s harness and the pack mule’s lead to guide them across the desert pool.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

From the bustling labs of the Northeast to the remote deserts of the Southwest, American ingenuity can be found everywhere.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

They then used machine-learning models that incorporated environmental data from deserts, tundra, forests, and other ecosystems to predict fungal network density in regions where direct measurements were unavailable.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 15, 2026

The solar panels and wind turbines that have popped up over swathes of sun-soaked land, from the Tibetan Plateau to Xinjiang's deserts, are part of this vision.

From BBC ● May 31, 2026

The recent snowfall comes amid a “May Gray” weather condition that is expected to bring lower temperatures across Southern California through Thursday, with mountains and deserts potentially experiencing temperatures up to 25 degrees below average.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026

They are nomads of the deserts no man can travel.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

Adalberto Maypora, a well-known character around town, inspects his fishing boat on a deserted beach nestled between cliffs.

From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026

Let’s not even talk about the “three-hour tour” that left Gilligan and friends stranded on a deserted island for 98 episodes, or how Jack Dawson’s voyage ended aboard 1997’s “Titanic.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

An AFP correspondent in Nabatieh said the city was almost deserted, reporting artillery shelling there and in nearby areas overnight and on Saturday.

From Barron's ● Jun. 13, 2026

With regard to the French Revolution and its aftermath, Forster’s good sense deserted him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

Zheng looked out through the gap in the door to the deserted beach outside.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook

But a major reason for voters deserting the party in past elections was inflation, an unwelcome phenomenon for households after several decades of stable or falling prices.

From Barron's ● Feb. 9, 2026

But the rate is half the national level for Californians under 35, and they are precisely the group that is deserting the West Coast for “cost of living” reasons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2025

In a mountainous village of post-war Italy, a taciturn Sicilian soldier hides out after deserting the army.

From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2024

But the Syrian army collapsed with surprising ease, with many troops deserting the battlefield, in the face of the HTS rebels’ onslaught.

From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2024

By then, she’s turned the parchment over. —allies are deserting Gens Taia like rats fleeing a fire.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir