Carnegie Science's Desert Laboratory in Tucson, Arizona served as an intellectual hub where pioneering ecologists helped transform the emerging discipline of ecology from descriptive natural history ...

Invasive Saharan mustard is damaging Southern California's deserts. (Lynn Sweet/UCR) The UC Riverside study published in the journal Ecology analyzes 17 years of data from the university’s Palm Desert ...

How an iconic desert tree survives extreme heat—and the unique risk it's facing now by Heidi Toth, Northern Arizona University Editors' notes ...

Simulating a desert for 100 days using 150 gallon used tank. It's home to crickets, lizards, scorpions, spiders, toads and much more!! Some I didn't even put in there. Even has cacti flowers and a ...

Federal plans to open up the desert for massive solar farms has angered environmentalists Bureau of Land Management just revealed an ambitious plan for renewable energy.

In a glimmer of hope for one of the world’s rarest fish, scientists have counted 191 Devils Hole pupfish this spring in their tiny desert habitat. This number marks the highest spring count for ...

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The Mojave Desert Land Trust is working to scout, catalogue, collect and preserve millions of seeds from 250 species and counting in a race to save an ecosystem.

The Mojave Desert Land Trust is working to scout, catalogue, collect and preserve millions of seeds from 250 species and counting in a race to save an ecosystem.

What if there was a way to preserve the ecosystem, centered around the seeds that facilitate all the life here? The result was the Mojave Desert Land Trust seed bank.