Sand scorpions, nocturnal hunters who spend their days in burrows, also leave distinct tracks.

The Great Basin National Heritage Area is a bleak, lonely place. Lost in the West Desert between Utah and Nevada, surrounded by towering peaks and wide-open skies, it's remote, sparse, and empty ...

This Camera Is Taking a 1,000-Year-Long Exposure Photo of Tucson’s Desert Landscape ... “Most people have a pretty bleak outlook on what lies ahead,” says Keats.

The literature on vegetation restoration in the Mojave Desert “is a tale of failed experiments,” Hughson said, noting that recovery efforts to replant Joshua trees after the Dome fire had not ...

Sometimes words fall hopelessly short. This might explain the silences between the two botanists as their vehicle crunches over a gravelly Richtersveld moonscape, a desert that straddles the South ...

The apparent bleakness of a landscape, then, isn’t something I see as a problem. Quite the opposite. The trouble with ‘bleak’ is much more about how all too often, wild has been driven out.

Desert landscaping can be a low maintenance option that requires little upkeep and water. Succulents are of course a must; cacti, aloe and yucca are traditional desert additions.

Granted, the backyard desert meadow still disappeared in the 118-degree Fahrenheit temperatures of the Mojave Desert summer, but all fields need their rest. We couldn't get outside to appreciate ...

A 3.5-million-acre swath of Mojave Desert, between Ridgecrest and the Morongo Basin, has been named a sentinel landscape, a federally led effort to promote sustainable land-use near military ...