Explores how plants and animals survive in one of Earth's harshest environments—deserts, where annual rainfall is less than ...

Far from being barren wastelands, deserts are biologically rich habitats with a vast array of animals and plants ... becomes blanketed in wildflowers. Desert plants may have to go without fresh ...

But have you ever wondered what plants and animals live in a desert and how they survive there? This is the Sahara. The largest desert on Earth! Wow! It looks like it hardly ever rains here.

But even small changes in temperature or precipitation could drastically impact plants and animals living in the desert. In some cases global warming is predicted to increase the area of deserts ...

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 ...

is an ambitious undertaking that is envisioned to both protect irreplaceable desert habitats, plants, animals and ecological processes and allow for the development of a significant amount of ...

This huge expanse of land is also home to numerous imperiled species, including the threatened desert tortoise, the endangered Peninsular bighorn sheep, the cushenberry buckwheat, and many other rare ...

This could be used to introduce students to the ecosystem of the desert and how people, plants and animals adapt to the conditions. Students could be given a list of plants or animals and asked to ...

In Latin "ovis" comes from "sheep" and honors the desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni), an iconic and threatened desert animal. The plant has white and woolly leaves, with small, curved ...