The key to successful crops in the desert is water retention in the soil. I'm planning to grow corn, squash, and beans in ...

A year shy of its 90th anniversary, experts still marvel at the construction of the Hoover Dam, one of the most visited sites ...

Hoover Dam was called one of the greatest engineering works in history. 5,000 working men and their families came to live in the Nevada desert, all in search of a paycheck. The work was extremely ...

ENNDA managing director Ali Ibrahim Hassan notes that the Eres Teno dam will tap water that overflows from the Ethiopian highlands when it rains. While the Chefachachane is located in the desert ...

Harold Ickes, whom Roosevelt chose to become Interior secretary in his administration, decided in May 1933 to revert the name back to Boulder Dam because he felt it “should not carry the name of any ...

It would be the "Biggest Thing on Earth," the salvation of the common man, a dam and irrigation project that would make the desert bloom, a source of cheap power that would boost an entire region ...

Any tourist to Las Vegas knows that Sin City can get overwhelming, so take a break and visit this wildly underrated desert city full of history and art.