I’m their everything.” During a serpentine drive into Aruba’s parched heart, we pick up bitter fungi growing on the umbrella-like kwihi tree, sweet red fruits from the breba cactus and citru ...

The area that is now Joshua Tree National Park wasn’t always a desert. During the Great Ice Age, also known as the Pleistocene Epoch, there were rivers and lakes as well as Columbian mammoths ...