An American desert icon is dying off in the southwestern United States. Experts say record-setting summers and intense ...

Fifty rare plant and animal species are native to the region, including the desert bighorn sheep and the Chuckwalla lizard. The monument will also safeguard clean water for more than 40 million ...

“Desert Dreams” blends HD video footage and time-lapse imagery captured over four years with stills from the filmmaker’s ...

Camels (Camelus dromedarius) are even-toed ungulates that live in the desert. They are known for being able to go a long time ...

As you can see from the climate graph, plants and animals in the desert have to cope with very little water. The climate is very hot. Summer day time temperatures can exceed 40°C. However ...

Increasingly frequent and severe heat waves in the Southwest are damaging some desert plants known for thriving in harsh conditions. Saguaro cacti and agave have both suffered in sweltering ...

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 ...

The animals like the red flavor best and purple ... you're talking probably 100 years," he says. "That's why desert plants are going to be the ones that are suffering most." But Puente-Martinez ...

but it is also a habitat for threatened desert tortoises. While the plant’s developers agreed to a series of measures to protect and relocate the animals, many environmentalists believed the ...

Few living things seem to have less in common than plants and animals, but that assumption is being increasingly challenged. Evolution, and the ways in which the kingdom of plants and the kingdom ...

The Daily Press asked seasoned High Desert gardeners what their secrets were for growing a healthy assortment of plants during the winter months. We were gifted with an in-depth list of specific ...