The grant will fund the first phase of restoration work on 28 acres of the defunct Mesquite Golf Course, which Oswit Land ...

Saguaros across the Tucson area are erupting with flowers in an unusual display not seen since 2021. Experts don't really ...

I took a drive to Phoenix, Arizona, just a week into May to see my son and his family. What made it a phenomenal drive was that much of the desert in both ...

But the state is more than its desert scrub. There are the spire-like slot canyons of Cathedral Gorge, the snowy ranges of the Ruby Mountains, and the stargazing solitude of Great Basin National Park.

A team of researchers has successfully grown a tree from a seed that survived for over a thousand years in a cave in the ...

"It's like dropping a bomb from an aircraft," said Jeffrey Calhoon, chief of the Border Patrol's El Centro sector, which stretches through alfalfa farms, desert scrub and sand dunes in southeast ...

This desert has wonderful desert scrub assemblages, and in the spring, scores of species of desert annuals sprout. Colorful desert pavement coats the high places between washes. Most stunning are ...

Flying 80 miles an hour down the 95 — past sun-hardened rock faces and thorny desert scrub — I blearily had visions of making the same trip by foot and on horseback. In Tonopah, Nevada ...

What's more, each nut it drops can lie dormant for up to 12 years, with a single season capable of producing tens of millions of new seeds. But this year, there's a major breakthrough. Thanks to a ...