Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joshua trees, such as this roughly 150- to 200-year-old specimen, are threatened with removal because of a solar project near ...

From the archive: This story originally published in The Desert Sun in June 2020. “To know the smoke tree is an experience; but one cannot know it at its strikingly best unless he has seen it in full ...

Mass tree planting in China is turning one of the world's largest and driest deserts into a carbon sink, meaning it absorbs more carbon from the atmosphere than it emits, new research reveals. The ...

New research has found that the punishing summer temperatures and persistent drought conditions in much of Arizona and the Southwest are dealing a double whammy to trees attempting to regulate their ...

At the edge of China's Taklamakan Desert, rows of trees are slowly edging into one of the world’s harshest landscapes after ...

On November 28, 2024, crews on the southern rim of the Taklamakan Desert planted the last 100 meters of trees. Chinese state reporting said the final stretch completed a 3,046-kilometer green belt ...

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 ...

It’s been a while since we’ve had such an outpouring for something that doesn’t have to do with Donald Trump: Dozens of readers wrote letters to the editor expressing dismay over the construction of a ...