Rattlesnakes and rabbits, snakes and lizards, coyotes and bobcats, and ... lions? These were just a few of the desert creatures that third-graders at Las Palmitas Elementary School in Thermal shouted ...

Living in a desert environment, it is important for everyone to understand and value one of our most precious and scarcest ...

As the second-largest shifting sand desert worldwide, the Taklimakan Desert (TD) represents the typical aeolian landforms in arid regions as an important source of global dust aerosols. It directly ...

The Numbers Don't Lie About Desert Growth The Sahara Desert has expanded by about 10 percent since 1920, according to a new ...

When desert animals face environmental extremes day in and day out, every unique anatomical feature can aid in their survival. Among the most striking of these adaptations is ear size. In arid ...

A new glamping development featuring Airstream trailers broke ground up the road from Joshua Tree National Park's main entrance in late January. Renderings from the company behind the project, ...

Despite resistance from environmental groups, the Bureau of Land Management will reopen a wide swath of the imperiled Sonoran desert tortoise’s habitat to cattle grazing on the Sonoran Desert National ...

ASU's location in a sunny, desert environment makes the campus the perfect place for cactuses. Gabriella Zwall, a senior studying dietetics and a member of the Cultivate Downtown Gardening Club at ASU ...

SEARCHLIGHT, Nev. — The remote mountain from which Mojave Desert tribes believe the universe unfolds rises above a corner of southwestern Nevada defined by Joshua trees, outcroppings, and ...

Desert X, the open air biennial staged in California’s Coachella Valley, has run into roadblocks with another one of its projects. The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens in Palm Desert has cancelled plans ...