The Oregon Badlands Wilderness, so named for its wild and rugged terrain, lies just 15 miles east of Bend, Oregon. While the ...

Curated by University of Colorado Boulder students under the direction of Sean Babbs (Instruction Coordinator for the Libraries' Rare and Distinctive Collections) and Suzanne Magnanini (Associate ...

But under the Bureau of Land Management’s plan to rapidly develop public lands into solar farms, part of that valley could ...

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 ...

The prickly pear cactus (opuntia engelmannii) is a quintessential desert plant, highly useful to many species including our ...

An old Qilian juniper (Juniperus przewalskii) tree growing on Delingha region on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...

Steel brackets and cables were installed to stabilize the tree, which continues to thrive. Shoes of every stripe festoon a juniper tree beside a lonely stretch of highway north of Hallelujah ...

A project to install solar panels around the Mojave Desert has begun cutting down thousands of Joshua trees, much to the residents’ chagrin. The Los Angeles Times reported several citizens ...

And the list of potential trees homeowners can plant is shrinking. “Many plants that were planted heavily in the past are no longer viable with the restrictive water usage, so desert-adapted ...

Higher temperatures may produce an increasing number of wildfires that alter desert landscapes by eliminating slow-growing trees and shrubs and replacing them with fast-growing grasses.

Study Finds Nearly Half of U.S. Counties Have at Least One 'Pharmacy Desert' Aug. 23, 2024 — Nearly half of counties in the United States have at least one 'pharmacy desert' where there is no ...