Summer is approaching, and temperatures are beginning to rise in the valley. A certified arborist offered tips to protect your vegetable and herb garden and landscaping in the midst of Las Vegas’s ...

That’s largely the case today, but 7,000 years ago the vast desert was an altogether different ... rex and their plant-eating prey would have congregated to drink water from a lagoon on what ...

And on all sides, the air is alive with the songs of desert birds. The deserts of the Southwest provide excellent birding. These arid lands support a rich variety of birds, including some birds that ...

And this is where the growing process begins. The new shoots and leaves are green because of the chemicals within the plant. Those chemicals work with sunlight to produce the food that the plant ...

A view from the Takarkori rock shelter in southwestern Libya ...

Then come the rosebuds and the delicate cactus blossom — prickly pear’s floral side. Anchoring it all: desert mu ...

Although there may be interest in using desert native trees outside of desert areas as a means of reducing landscape water demand or adding highly drought resistant plant material to non-desert plant ...

Audubon’s native plants database draws its plant data from the North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program (BONAP).

In each biological replicate, one diseased (the aboveground parts were wilted and yellowed, and the roots were necrotic) and one healthy plant (no signs of root rot) were selected (Figure 1A). In each ...