desert

The world's first US-born pontiff, who holds Peruvian citizenship, will celebrate mass on a desert plain near the Pacific Ocean, before visiting Cusco, the former Inca capital, and Pucallpa, a city in the Amazon rainforest.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

The al-Alam camp targeted by the Houthis sits at a strategic point in Yemen’s Shabwah governorate, a desert stretch known for being home to the divided country’s oil and natural gas fields.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

On September 23, 2023, a capsule carrying approximately 120 grams of asteroid material landed in the Utah desert.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

This material will be packed into a small capsule that will return to Earth in 2031, landing in the Woomera desert of South Australia.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Each shard fell, revealing a tiny little desert.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

Its vital infrastructure, civilian airports, and Saudi Aramco oil facilities are scattered across vast, sparsely populated deserts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 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

I’ve pulled together 13 fall travel ideas here, from deserts to coast with a couple of mountain destinations mixed in.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 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

It was said they were brethren and sistren, each tasked to watch over a particular piece of the world—the skies, seas, jungles, deserts, mountains, and realm of the dead.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

Aberdonians had long deserted the High Street for a shopping centre, which opened in 2009 next to the railway station.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

But when he arrived, the business was deserted.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 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

The square was deserted, save for a lirkmunk who chittered in annoyance at the smell and ran for the safety of a nearby thicket.

From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate

In recent years, the number of Kiwis deserting the nation has reached record levels, a large chunk of them moving "across the ditch" to Australia.

From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2026

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

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

You will become everything you hate, Cain had said when I'd considered deserting.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir