Rain is forecast for later this week, but Phoenix will need more than one storm to offset months of drought. With parched soils and plants, residents need to take extra care of their landscaping to ...

It's best to always research optimal growing environments for this reason. Caring for snake plants is no exception, and you may be wondering just how low of a room temperature the ...

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 ...

The roots of both plants coexisted in a layer of 30–50 cm ... This paper provided a potential strategy to regulate soil microbial communities and rationally allocate plant species in desert ecosystems ...

Plants and animals need health lands and waters to live on the Colorado Plateau. Here's what we're doing to help beaver, ...

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

Farms cultivating everything from the exotic to the impossible-to-grow-in-the-desert are mushrooming across ... An open one with 6,000 strawberry plants and a greenhouse with 1,870.

In October 2023, Zhang brought Juncao grass seeds to Mauritania from a field in China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. He ...

A 24-acre swimming lagoon has been filled and home construction continues as the first residents get ready to move into Cotino in Rancho Mirage.

The Chihuahuan is the largest desert in North America-stretching all the way from the southwestern United States deep into the Central Mexican Highlands. WWF's conservation efforts focus on the Big ...