A volunteer at Texas’ Big Bend National Park spotted bright red blooms after rain in a remote stretch of desert, leading to ...

US national parks are famed for their biodiversity, but even the most well-studied of places can still throw us a surprise or ...

Perennials, shrubs and small trees native to the Chihuahuan Desert give color to San Antonio gardens while providing food and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since its founding in 2006, the Mojave Desert Land Trust has conserved over 100,000 acres, conveying more tracts of land to ...

Meerkats are small, furry animals that are found in Sothern Africa ... and they are able to eat the thorny plants and grasses that live in the desert. Aardvarks are a species of mammal that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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