Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar-led research suggests climate change, increased monsoon rainfall and expanded groundwater pumping have driven substantial vegetation growth in the Thar ...

This odd plant hidden in the Namib Desert looks like it belongs in a Sci-Fi movie, but it's actually one of Earth's ...

Since most iguana species live in the Americas, biologists have long debated how they could have arrived on the remote ...

The trek—from the North American desert to Fiji—now represents the longest known migration of any terrestrial animal.

Yet the Desert Botanical Garden is home to thousands of species of cacti, trees and flowers from all around the world. The garden's brightly colored plants sharply contrast the Sonoran Desert's ...

A solar farm in the Mojave Desert is destroying thousands of iconic Joshua trees. It could be the tip of the iceberg as the ...

Longshore believes that using native plants in landscaping can help conserve water, attract pollinators, and prevent fires. High Desert native, professor and high school biology teacher Audrey ...

Joe Davidson, the owner of Cactus Joe’s, a nursery located off Blue Diamond Road in the southwest Las Vegas valley, has been ...

In Argentina’s Neuquén province, local laws require that when oil companies decommission a drilling site in the Monte Desert, they dig furrows across the site to promote plant growth ...