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 ...

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

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

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

The saguaro cactus is the iconic plant of the Arizona borderlands, and in June and early July, its fruit ripens ...

It’s misleading because century plants, a type of agave producing brilliant yellow blooms at this time of year, don’t live for 100 years. More like 10 to 30 or perhaps 40 years, according to ...

She extols several plants currently blooming in her garden whose flowers are in the fiery color spectrum that stretches from yellow to orange to red. The plant she is most enthusiastic about is a ...

Charlize Theron squares off against Uma Thurman in an immortal death match that fails to take full advantage of its time.

Can the vast and sparsely populated African country translate its renewable power potential into national development?

Had cockroaches not been able to survive for the past 300 million years, Earth would not be as healthy as it is today.

The photo of a courageous mother lemur with a baby on her back, taking a harrowing jump in a ravine, won the California ...