Aside from abundant sunshine, a trip to Bend, Ore. offered our writer hikes, stargazing excursions and more on a recent trip.

My wife and I had just spent three exhilarating mid-afternoon hours exploring picturesque grassland, forest and desert. We were chatting casually and moving briskly as the trail descended ...

It's the perfect time of year to start exploring the desert near L.A. These hikes are closer than Joshua Tree National Park, ...

The driving force behind it was Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, who suggested planting a forest to impede the expanding desert. Experts told him that it would not be possible ...

Petrified Forest National Park has many natural wonders to see with the petrified wood and multi-colored badlands in the Painted Desert being just some of these. You can also take in the Painted ...

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This is the “high desert,” and its diverse flora has attracted ... Golfers might want to stay at Sunriver Resort (where we also enjoyed forest bathing and a magnificent sound healing ...

This desert is also home to the fennec fox ... The different layers of a deciduous forest. videoThe different layers of a deciduous forest Exploring the layers of a deciduous forest and how ...

An aerial drone photo taken on Oct. 27, 2024 shows the autumn scenery of the desert poplar (populus euphratica) forest in ...

Our lives are increasingly connected to a screen. We work, chat with friends and family, look at pictures of nature and cute animal videos, find recipes, and ...