Desert

Not long ago, while walking up a gravel road in Bears Ears National Monument, my eye was distracted by a flash of brilliant, almost neon green against the red rocks and sand.

We talk with award-winning Utah essayist Phyllis Barber about her book "The Precarious Walk: Essays from Sand and Sky."

For 44 years I have spent considerable time in the company of the desert creatures that reside outside my home in St. George Utah.

University of Utah's Red Butte Press celebrated the release of the fine press artists' book "Oracle Bones" with a reading by Terry Tempest Williams, as well as a panel discussion.

Utah is the second-driest state in the nation, just behind Nevada. Utah has a lot of catching up to do if the state wants to match southern Nevada’s water-conservation feats.

The crinoids encased in the limestone boulders along the riverbank remind me that this place was once for millions of years, actually, an ancient inland sea. I find deliciousness here in the dry heat, the muddy grit, as a guest who will return, hungry for more.

Water is critical to Arizona's future, and the state's three public universities are challenging high school students to propose solutions for the water…

The Navajo sandstone is one of Utah’s most iconic rock formations, with its massive white-pink cliffs strikingly visible in Zion and other national parks…

How can the stories we tell protect the places we love? Friends of Cedar Mesa and Torrey House Press are presenting a conversation on the unique ways…

"The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places," features William Atkins' travels across five continents over three years, visiting deserts both…