A wildfire in California’s Joshua Tree National Park burned through some 29 hectares (72 acres) of land during the recent ...

Worldwide, introduced non-native herbivores have the potential to threaten native ecosystems. For example, in western North America, uncontrolled numbers of feral horses and burros are threatening ...

Desert ecosystems are some of the most richly diverse in the world and yet they are one of the most threatened ecosystems on the planet. Deserts, which account for one-third of the earth’s land mass, ...

Near Palm Springs, California, Joshua Tree National Park is a protected desert expanse named for its signature yucca plant ...

Deserts are one of the top three richest biomes for terrestrial vertebrates, with a quarter of species, totaling almost 7,000, found there. Three percent of these species are only found in desert ...

New climate research warns that a wetter Sahara Desert could be in our future, as major rainfall increases and reduced Saharan dust threaten to intensify the Atlantic hurricane season, worsen drought ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - Six students from the University of San Diego spent a week in the Anza-Borrego desert, looking at how climate change impacts aquatic insects and their ecosystem. "It's awesome," ...

Electric car batteries require 500,000 gallons of water per ton of lithium, devastating Chile's Atacama Desert and displacing ...

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