Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Millicent Harvey's close up of smoke tree bloom. “To know the smoke tree is an experience; but one cannot know it at its ...

Chilopsis linearis, the desert willow or desert catalpa, is prized in dry gardens for its showy, fragrant blossoms which cover the tree in summer. When many native bloomers are past their spring glory ...

NPCA has been working to expand Joshua Tree National Park and establish Chuckwalla National Monument to protect desert tortoise habitat. Here’s why an intact desert landscape matters for the tortoise ...

You’ll see it just east of Yucca Valley, along the busy Twentynine Palms Highway, a mysterious sign with four huge red letters — MDLT — underlined by a fat arrow pointing north. It’s only when you’re ...

Avid arid gardeners will be interested in a new CD-ROM reference guide to desert landscape plants. Desert Landscaping CD Version 2.0 — developed by the University of Arizona Water Resources Research ...

Southern Nevadans for years have been encouraged to tear out their grass lawns and install drought-friendly desert landscaping as a way of combatting the crippling drought along the Colorado River.

THE LIVING DESERT, an animal park known for championing regional wildlife, popular seasonal events (like the whimsical ...

A light rain fell on the Mojave National Preserve, where firefighters continued their nearly weeklong battle Wednesday against an unusual desert wildfire that has incinerated countless Joshua trees ...