Discusses desert biomes, highlighting their unique characteristics, such as extreme temperatures, lack of water, and diverse adaptations of plants and animals. It explains how deserts are formed by ...

Once thought resistant to invasion, regional deserts are losing native plants to aggressive weedy species like Saharan ...

Las Arenitas is an artificial oasis that recycles used water from the border city of Mexicali to regenerate ecosystems in the ...

“Invasive species like Saharan mustard don’t just compete with native plants for space—they can fundamentally alter how the ecosystem functions,” Rodriguez said. “Deserts have long been ...

The 1.6-million-acre park was established by the California Desert Protection Act in 1994 to protect fragile desert ecosystems.

worries that reduced staffing could “make it extremely difficult to mitigate visitor interaction with the fragile desert ecosystem and its most at-risk species.” More than 3.7 million people ...

He was born in Dornogovi in the eastern Gobi Desert, a biodiverse region of sand ... dams along the river and its tributaries. The Vjosa ecosystem protects aquatic biodiversity and provides ...

This shift weakens the ecosystem’s natural ability to recover from environmental fluctuations. UCR researchers sampling plants in the desert. (Loralee Larios/UCR) “Invasive species like Saharan ...