The Extreme Earth: Deserts
Origin of the Landform: Deserts
Deserts of North America
Sonoran Desert: Arizona and Northern Mexico
- Saguaros Nourish Civilizations
- Sky Islands Rise from Desert Seas
- Organ Pipe National Monument Preserves Desert
- Sky Islands Add Diversity
- A Baffling Missing Persons Case
- A Long Buildup and a Fast Collapse
- More Clues in the Verde Valley
- Casa Malpais: Death by Religious Warfare?
- Superstition Mountains and the Legend of the Lost Dutchman
- Flowers Blossom in the Desert
- The Lethal Secret of the Lost Dutchman
- Buenos Aires: The Grassland Boundary
- Gila River: Plight of the Desert
- A Fragile Desert at the Mercy of Human Beings
- A Massacre That Shocked the Nation
Mojave Desert: California, Arizona
- A Collision of Continents
- The World in a Song
- Death Valley: The Lowest, Hottest Place
- Desert-Adapted Species Struggle
- Creosote: The Oldest on Earth
- Ice Age Desert Fish Hangs On
- Joshua Tree National Monument: As Lush As the Mojave Gets
- The Edge of the Desert
- Desert Bursts into Flower
- It Takes a Fungus to Make a Soil
- Rattlesnakes: Deadly Adaptations
- Grand Canyon: A Transformed Sliver of the Mojave
- Grand Canyon Reveals the History of the Earth
Great Basin Desert: Utah, Arizona, Nevada
- Great Basin: Terrible Thirst and Endless Sagebrush
- Cataclysm Leaves Wealth of Minerals
- A Lethal Barrier to Exploration
- A Sagebrush Realm
- Adapted to the Sagebrush Ocean
- Invaders Unhinge an Ecosystem
- Painted Desert: Cold Winds and Buried Dinosaurs
- Condors Make a Comeback
- The “Blueberries” That Predicted an Ocean
Chihuahuan Desert: Arizona, Texas, Mexico
- The Mystery of the Cataclysm
- Century Plant Grows Fatally Tall to Survive
- A Tale of Hungry Bats and Lush Flowers
- Creatures That Never Take a Drink
- Big Bend National Monument: Hard and Historical
- Carlsbad Caverns National Park: Fantastic Realm
- White Sands National Monument
- Chiricahua Mountains: Between Two Deserts
- Living on Algae’s Efforts
- San Pedro River: A Linear Oasis
- The Battle of the Bulls
Deserts around the World
Sahara Desert: Northern Africa
- Can Snail Shells Solve a Mystery?
- A Mystery 1,000 Years Older Than Stonehenge
- Telltale Stone Tools Yield Clues
- A Devastating Desert Expansion
- Blame the Plants for Speed of Sahara Expansion
- The Geology of the Sahara
- The World’s Biggest Sand Dunes
- Sand Dunes Sing
- The Ghost of Water
- Living on Million-Year-Old Water
- In the Grip of a Dry Climate
- Plants Outwit Drought and Heat
- Animals Also Evolve Ingenuous Adaptations
- What Lies Ahead for the Sahara?
Arabian Desert: Middle East
- The Birth of an Ocean
- Arabian Peninsula Nourished Civilization
- The Arabian Horse
- Hidden Riches of the Arabian Desert
- A Landscape of Sand
- For Deserts—Location, Location, Location
- Plants Cope with Salt and Heat
- Strange Animals Thrive in Harsh Conditions
- The Ship of the Desert: The Camel
Kalahari Desert: Southern Africa
- The Original People
- Studying the Human Mystery
- The Bushman Diet Drug
- A Fossil Desert
- Great Animal Migrations
- Weaverbird Communes
Australian Deserts: Australia
- Disastrous Explorations
- Kangaroo Hops Happily through Hard Times
- The Aboriginals: The Oldest Culture
- Living in Dreamtime
Gobi Desert: Central Asia
- Assembling a Continental Desert
- Cutting Off the Moisture
- Plate Tectonics: The Restless Earth
- Eastern Gobi Desert Steppe
- Alshan Plateau and Junggar Basin Semi-Deserts
- Sand and Soil
- Wildlife of the Gobi Desert
- Sand Dunes Swallow Dinosaurs
- The First Indiana Jones
- The First Bird