Led by SMU's School of Accountancy, the 14-member team completed a demanding 58-kilometre trek across the Gobi Desert, earning recognition for exemplary environmental stewardship, teamwork and thought ...

Compared with the Gobi Desert, the Coachella Valley is a jungle. A variety of shrub species cover our valley floor. Succulent cacti, agaves and yuccas are common on hillsides. Four tree species adorn ...

The merciless sun and grueling hills of the Gobi savaged my taxed legs. In just three days, the Gobi Desert had already robbed me of my customary bravado. I found myself among a determined band of 109 ...

In 1923, a daring expedition into the Gobi Desert turned Roy Chapman Andrews into one of the era’s great adventure figures after his team uncovered discoveries that stunned the scientific world. What ...

A new dinosaur species has been uncovered in Mongolia, turning previous ideas about theropod evolution on their head, named Duonychus tsogtbaatari, this dinosaur is unique because it only has two ...

We came out of Ulaanbaatar a short while after daybreak, two Land Cruisers a half-mile apart headed south, and soon we had left behind the half-finished tenements and coal smoke of Mongolia's capital.

We're in the middle of Mongolia’s Gobi Desert in July. Storms this time of year here usually involve dust. But this is a rainstorm of historic proportions. Locals say they haven’t seen so much ...

On April 22, Ardmore Elementary School welcomed author and athlete Dion Leonard and his special little dog Gobi who traveled ...

Poke fun at Google Glass all you want, but it does do one thing pretty well: capture first person video. Take this one for example, by Aki Watanabe, a student at the American Museum of Natural History ...

What does the Yosemite National Park forest have in common with the Amazon rainforest? A food supply from a far-off place. During California’s rainy season, climate scientists say, dust from as far ...