The rare event is now breathing life into the desert, bringing mammals, birds and tourists to the heart of the Australian outback.

Environmental advocates and local tribes in Inyo County are rallying against a proposed gold mining project that threatens to upend an expanse of California’s high desert near Death Valley ...

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URUMQI -- Authorities in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region have introduced a new legal framework to safeguard the Gobi, a vital part of the desert ecosystem. On Saturday, the city ...

The long-lost desert rat-kangaroo was last recorded in the 1930s and declared extinct in the 1990s. But there's a chance it's living in hiding.

It has since exploded into a major threat to the desert ecosystem by crowding out native plants and fueling once-rare wildfires that kill saguaros, palo verdes and other iconic local species.

As an integral part of the desert ecosystem, the plant hosts large numbers of insects and interacts with the pollinators in the area, given its brightly colored flowers.

The concept of the food desert has been around long enough that it feels almost like a fact of nature. Tens of millions of Americans live in low-income communities with no easy access to fresh ...

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(Sept. 25, 2017) -- The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) is now part of the Desert Southwest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (DSCESU), a network of universities, government agencies and ...