On Kirsten Dutcher’s recent hikes in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, she’s witnessed a troubling sight: Ocotillos have keeled over onto the desert floor, and cholla cactuses are browning up from their ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Southeast Australia has been getting hotter and drier. Droughts ...

A new paper published in Biological Reviews has revealed the potential of desert ecosystems in the global fight against climate change. The review, led by Prof. Zeng Fanjiang from the Xinjiang ...

Volunteers are monitoring natural springs in an Arizona wilderness to understand what the construction of a border wall will ...

The city-owned facility added MiniVerde to its Firecliff greens in 2024, hopes do to the same at Mountain View Course soon.

California’s biggest wildfire of the year — burning through delicate Joshua tree forests along the California-Nevada border — is an unusual desert blaze being fueled in part by the rapid growth of ...

When the Bighorn Fire broke out in the Santa Catalina Mountains in 2020, nervous Tucson residents watched the flames move down the mountain a little farther each day, encroaching into the lower desert ...

Firefighters in Desert Hot Springs contained a vegetation fire on Friday night at Verbana Drive and Ironwood Drive that burned five acres. According to CalFire, the blaze was reported just after 5 p.m ...

A vegetation fire that was burning near Desert Hot Springs north of Desert Dunes Golf Club just off Dillon Road on Sunday night has been fully contained. The fire burned a quarter of an acre in ...

Rising from the endless white expanse of Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia’s Salt Sculpture Park offers a striking visual contrast to ...