desert

The Cadiz water project, a plan to drain water from the Mojave desert, has been fought by environmentalists for a quarter-century.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

When Stupnikov visited Omsk with Liza after his graduation, Tatiana and her son spent hours on the phone with human-rights lawyers and nonprofit groups that helped Russian soldiers desert.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Another piece of a mystery found in the Nevada desert has come to light.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Nestled on the edge of the Negev desert overlooking the Dead Sea, Arad, which has a population of 30,000, was once known as a prosperous and secular community.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

Sakharov’s own reaction was remarkably similar to what Robert Oppenheimer had experienced when he watched the world’s first atomic bomb test in the New Mexico desert ten years before.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

Barbabella, 56 years old, served as an emergency medicine physician in the high deserts of Afghanistan, where Navy records show he came under fire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

Last year, Northwestern University identified over 212 counties out of some 3,000 in the United States as "news deserts," having no locally-based news sources such as newspapers and public radio.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

The findings come as ministers have pledged to tackle so-called "dental deserts", but dentists say the current deal is not viable.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

The deserts and the San Joaquin Valley were under an extreme heat warning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026

As we fled we might encounter more soldiers, not to mention deserts and jungles and the dangers that lurk there.

From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau

O'Neill's famed ability to problem-solve and inspire has deserted him, for now.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

But this isn’t just a deserted patch of sand.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

“The Dog Stars” takes place in a wrecked, deserted 2035, after a viral plague has killed almost everybody on Earth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Destroyed buildings east of Deir al Balah, where farmland and residential areas appear largely deserted following the advance of the Yellow Line.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026

They’re all stranded on a deserted island, afraid to signal for help from passing ships in the distance, because they could belong to their enemies.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

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

Perhaps, but it was symbolic of the solitary nature of his position, as he confronts some of the hardest choices of his presidency and some of his former allies appear to be deserting him.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025

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

But that’s the way it’s been as my third and final child draws ever nearer to deserting the nest, as the role of “mother” becomes less CEO and more consultant emeritus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2024

Was he actually considering deserting all the things he loved?

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman