LAS VEGAS — On a sun-parched stretch of West Charleston Boulevard, Norm Schilling pulled his truck over to the side of the road just to visit his favorite tree. Schilling, a local horticulturalist who ...

THE LIVING DESERT, an animal park known for championing regional wildlife, popular seasonal events (like the whimsical "WildLights"), and the annual Emergence Contest surrounding Mojave Maxine, the ...

APRIL IN THE CALIFORNIA DESERT? It's a month you could confidently deem especially "festival-forward," thanks to all of the sizable under-the-sun celebrations. These parties are usually awash in art, ...

Despite the desert environment of the Coachella Valley, most of the landscaping here is predominantly made up of non-native and even tropical plants. Although aesthetically pleasing, these plants, ...

Lidar scanners — the same tech that allows self-driving cars to create 3D maps of their environments — had been capturing the ...

An American desert icon is dying off in the southwestern United States. Experts say record-setting summers and intense droughts in Arizona are causing a well-known succulent to struggle. The saguaro ...

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 California and Arizona was receiving ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plants grow among solar panels at the Gemini Solar Project, near Las Vegas. Courtesy of Tiffany Pereira A rare desert plant is ...

LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — This week’s high temperatures, which may feel more like summer than spring, could impact desert plants and set them up for a difficult summer ahead, a local landscaper said. Norm ...

Although sunlight is one of the cleanest forms of renewable energy available, clearing large swathes of desert habitat to build solar arrays has consequences for the plants and animals it displaces.