The view from the patio is shifting as Las Vegas residents embracing xeriscaping after the summer of 2024 left behind ...

From afar (or even from just 10 feet away), the patch of land just south of Highway 62 and east of the town of Joshua Tree looks like any other undeveloped parcel of Mojave Desert landscape, dotted ...

Shortly after I stepped onto the Lost Horse Mine trail in Joshua Tree National Park, tucked down a dirt road near the popular Keys View, the signs of a previous fire were apparent. Blackened Joshua ...

But around a million years ago, the climate dried up and the trees vanished. The landscape turned to a Mojave-like desert shrub land — an extremely arid place that seemed inhospitable for early ...

The L.A. Times Features team shares the places that have helped them amid uncertainty, be it a hot spring, cool desert, ...

Artist Charles Gaines doesn't want to tell you what to think; he wants his work to inspire viewers to think for themselves.

The Joshua Tree Art Museum (JTAM), founded by renowned ... for artists to develop their work in the inspiring High Desert landscape. Community Outreach: The ARM (Art, Reach, Motivate) Program ...

This year’s crop of about 30 Christmas trees was packed into a large ditch left by an earlier downpour, so future rainfall will remain on site to spur the growth of native desert plants.

Midway is a city in northwestern Wasatch County, Utah, located in the Heber Valley. Known as “Little Switzerland,” the scenic ...

Large wildfires in the desert were once rare. Now experts worry that invasive plants and a changing fire cycle are putting ...

The Red Hills Desert Garden in St. George, Utah, made me fall in love with the desert. With cacti, waterfalls, and dinosaur ...