From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a vast alien-like installation of hundreds of thousand of mirrors pointed at three towers, ...

Researchers Find An ‘Alien Plant’ In The Utah Desert In 1969 ... came across an unidentified fossil that was found in the same area as the alien plant while browsing the University of ...

Many desert plants can live for hundreds of years. But in California, the iconic Joshua tree—the oldest found was 1,000 years old—may not survive a hotter climate, scientists warn. If they don ...

National Park Service officials haven't identified the person or people who illegally drove more than two miles across Eureka ...

Sonoran Desert. Photographer: Paul Williams we found someone's pet cat had been caught in a cholla One evening we heard the most painful howls from a cholla plant not far away. Upon investigating ...

Last summer’s monsoon is best described as a “non-soon” with very little precipitation. In the five months since August there has been virtually no measurable rain in the ...

But even small changes in temperature or precipitation could drastically impact plants and animals living in the desert. In some cases global warming is predicted to increase the area of deserts ...