Indoor gardening can sometimes feel like a daunting task, especially if your heart is set on creating a desert oasis right in ...

Set in Southern California, my HO scale layout includes a Southern Pacific train order office surrounded by a desert scene. Although this arid landscape has sparse vegetation, my scene needed two ...

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(CN) — Like countless other living things on Earth, plants have a remarkable ability to adapt to changes in their environment in a bid for survival. One way plants do this is by changing the size of ...

From pinyon pines to ocotillos, plants in the Sonoran Desert are shifting where they grow in response to climate change, and many of the plants aren’t thriving in their new ranges, according to a new ...

Shrubs in the desert Southwest have increased their water use efficiency at some of the highest rates ever observed to cope with a decades-long megadrought. Researchers found that although the shrubs' ...

As large solar projects become more common across the Mountain West, questions remain about their environmental footprint, ...

An experiment in western China over the past four decades shows that it is possible to tame the expansion of desert lands ...

For the past 15 years, Philip Rundel has been developing this book through his long-term relationship and travels in deserts of the Southwestern United States, northern Chile and southern Africa. His ...

The Mojave Desert is often portrayed as empty space waiting to be filled with solar panels, but the ground beneath those arrays can be as biologically rich as any national park. New research on a ...