Steppes are regions where the weather is so dry that trees can’t grow, but not dry enough to create a desert. While steppe may be used to describe these areas in Eastern Europe and Asia, they ...

A common misconception is that the shrub-steppe (the biome we live in here in Central Washington) is a desolate wasteland, a desert, good for nothing except development and further human ...

In remote Kazakhstan, photographer Andrew McConnell captured astronauts’ return from the ISS — and the nomadic communities whose lives became intertwined with space travel.

THE SIEGE OF ISFAHAN By Jean-Christophe Rufin Translated from the French by Willard Wood;W.W. Norton; 416 pages, $26.95 ...