National Water Carrier is completed, bringing water from Lake Kinneret in the north to the semiarid south. Six-Day War. On June 5, Israel attacks Egypt and captures the Sinai Peninsula and the ...

Here’s why: The northern desert night snake is brown, beige or pale gray, with dark blotches on its upperside. It also has a ...

Originally a “western” species of semiarid environments, it was introduced in the east in the 1940s; it has now expanded its range and spread to virtually every state, as well as a multitude ...

As urban areas continue to expand, they often experience the urban heat island effect, where cities become significantly ...

Instead, expect a hazy purple and green glow in the northern sky. The semiarid climate is ideal for northern lights, but the latitude requires a good long-exposure camera to really see what’s ...

Three massive flood events across three continents have claimed over 1,500 lives and cost over $15 billion in September.

Mulholland Drive sits high atop the Santa Monica Mountains, overlooking the vast expanse of the Los Angeles Basin. If you’ve ever been there, the view is especially spectacular at night: With the ...

They're often found on loose sand or loamy soils and habitat in arid and semiarid ecosystems. Habitat loss, largely due to ...

Your Artstor image groups were copied to Workspace. The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Human-Wildlife Interactions Vol. 7, No. 2, Fall 2013 Factors influencing survival and product ...

A steer is coaxed into its pen at a feedlot near Garden City, Kansas. Sparse population, a semiarid climate, and abundant groundwater turned the southern High Plains into the world’s feedlot ...

The US Federal Reserve on Thursday announced a 50 percentage point reduction in its key interest rate in a bid to ensure that ...

Because of Los Angeles’ semiarid Mediterranean climate, Mulholland’s massive public works project enabled dramatic population growth, which in turn fueled the explosive development of the ...