Desert animals adapt by eating water-storing plants or opportunistically feeding on moisture-rich insects and small animals ...

Hidden beneath the dunes, a mysterious creature glides through the sand. This is not one of the giant worms of Arrakis in ...

In Central Australia, the Tjakuṟa (great desert skink, Liopholis kintorei) is a culturally important species for Tjukurpa—the ...

Last summer’s monsoon is best described as a “non-soon” with very little precipitation. In the five months since August there has been virtually no measurable rain in the ...

“The Framing of the Shrew” began the headline of a recent article in The Guardian by Katharine Gammon. It told of the ...

Watching the wildfires devastate a major U.S. city has many of us wondering: Could it happen here? Research shows our ...

Researchers documented the first spotted hyena in Egypt for 5,000 years after it was hit with a pickup truck for killing ...

The ideal time to see the cacti bloom in deserts is usually from late March to early May. This timeframe can shift a bit ...

As solar energy farms continue to pop up across the Mojave Desert, some residents are being squeezed out of their homes: the ...

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

Researchers in Palm Desert and Mongolia are sharing conservation strategies to protect landscapes and the communities that ...