High Desert summers require specific gardening techniques due to extreme heat. Try growing these heat-tolerant plants this summer.

Trees provide essential structure while adding their own unique beauty to the landscape. Discover gorgeous flowering trees ...

Sand scorpions, nocturnal hunters who spend their days in burrows, also leave distinct tracks.

The cactus, palms and succulents anchoring yards around the desert can successfully be planted in the heat, but don't wait. And getting some advice from a nursery is a good idea should you choose to ...

Droughts are inevitable in the Southwest. Thankfully, a bio-inspired film has been engineered, which pulls gallons of water ...

Dyers say pigments can imprint a favorite color on clothing, quilts or even yarn and give them a way to connect with nature ...

As jewelflowers spread into California from the desert Southwest over the past couple of million years, they settled in ...

A lack of trees makes the Historic Westside one of the hottest neighborhoods in Las Vegas, which climate scientists consider ...

In a Swiss pine forest, the treetops are being sprayed with mist in a bid to discover the effect that drier or wetter air has ...

There's a massive Joshua tree forest in northwestern Arizona. You can visit without the fees or crowds you'd find in a ...

Mycorrhizal fungi are vital to ecosystems around the world, but remain largely understudied, especially in arid regions. They ...

Environmentalists filed suit against the Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday for alleged inaction in the face of threats to a rare desert plant called the Tecopa bird’s beak. Citing the presence or ...