The area looks slightly different every time Edward Platero visits. The cinematographer fondly remembers purchasing “The ...

Austin Turner is a web producer at CBS News Los Angeles. An Inland Empire native, Austin earned a degree in journalism from San Jose State University in 2020. Before joining CBS News in 2025, he ...

Update: This story has been updated with new information. A vegetation fire that broke out at a campground in Joshua Tree National Park on Sunday has burned 72 acres and 80% contained as of Monday ...

The fire has been mapped at 72 acres and is 80% contained, according to CAL FIRE. According to the National Park Service, the area around the Black Rock Campground is closued until Thursday. "Joshua ...

Sprawled across much of the Arabian Peninsula, today’s Arabian Desert is known for brutal heat, dry, harsh winds and scarce water—hardly hospitable to human settlers unaided by air conditioning and a ...

The desert is calling once again as the Joshua Tree Music Festival returns Oct. 9–12 to the Joshua Tree Lake Campground, promising four days of eclectic music, creativity, and community beneath the ...

There is no greater symbol of thriving in the desert than the camel. The hunter-gatherers who roamed the Nefud Desert in Saudi Arabia thousands of years ago certainly thought so. High up on desert ...

In the Nefud Desert of Saudi Arabia, monument-like engravings were discovered as ancient “road signs” to water. Guagnin, et al (2025) Nature Communications Tens of thousands of years ago, there was ...