Amid the woozy desert haze springs an incongruous streak of blue. Lake Mead is the most mirage-like thing I’ve ever seen that ...

These findings provided a potential strategy for us to manipulate desert soil microbial communities and optimize desert species allocation in vegetation sustainability. In the present study, we ...

In temperate desert ecosystems, which functional trait to use to predict ecosystem function is an important scientific question. In this study, the minimum data sets of functional traits of woody ...

This green belt is expected to stretch across an extensive area, featuring trees and vegetation that act ... The country’s vast arid and semi-arid regions have been particularly vulnerable to ...

Over a million years ago, Homo erectus defied the extreme conditions of African deserts. A recent study reveals how this ...

Here’s everything you need to know to plan a trip to Saguaro National Park, including the best hiking trails, things to do, ...

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 ...

There is sparse vegetation and little shade. The terrain is often rough ... The results indicated that H. erectus lived in a semi-desert environment consisting mostly of shrubland. The evidence also ...

The Chihuahuan is the largest desert in North America-stretching all the way from the southwestern United ... This includes reducing soil erosion and enhancing water availability, installing low-tech ...

By reconstructing the environment of that time, which was dominated by semi ... with desert-like conditions emerging. Fossil pollen analysis revealed that drought-resistant plants like Ephedra ...

A look at some desert courses that have disappeared in recent years and one course that has salvaged some of its golf.

Located within the Sonoran Desert, Rincon Mountain District (Saguaro East) and Tucson Mountain District (Saguaro West) are nearly an hour’s drive apart. According to Stephen Romero, the ...