The Blooming Of Desert Annuals Is Over, but not that of the region's stolid desert willows and smoke trees. Rooted in the beds of dry washes throughout Anza-Borrego’s lower valleys, both plants ...

One of the interesting things about that is that originally the desert island in cartoons is quite large, and the ship is sinking in the background, so there’s a narrative.

Whenever we think of the Sahara Desert, the images that come to mind are vast stretches of sand and extreme dryness. But do you know that the desert was not always this arid and once had water and ...

Increasingly frequent and severe heat waves in the Southwest are damaging some desert plants known for thriving in harsh conditions. Saguaro cacti and agave have both suffered in sweltering ...

Formed by powerful winds carrying sand from the Sahara across the ocean before settling on the island, this desert is punctuated with oases and date trees.

Tucson and other desert cities benefit more from the cooling effects of trees than other urban areas do, according to new study by the U.S. Geological Survey.

Firefighters are working to control a massive blaze that swept through the California desert and into Nevada. A wildfire of this scale is not common in the Mojave Desert landscape, known for its ...

Isabella Tree, conservationist and writer, shares the eight tracks, book and luxury she would take with her if cast away to a desert island. With Lauren Laverne. Show more Isabella Tree is a ...