You’ll find a lot more sand than trees in the Sahara Desert, but that doesn’t mean they don’t occasionally crop up. Here’s the story of the Tree of Ténéré, as well as a couple other famous trees found ...

Where there’s a tree, there’s usually a forest. But not always. A biologist describes some of the loneliest trees on planet Earth. When we think about isolation in nature, we usually picture islands ...

A rare deluge of rainfall left blue lagoons of water amid the palm trees and sand dunes of the Sahara desert, nourishing some of its driest regions with more water than they had seen in decades.