When Roy Richards spotted workers cutting down and shredding Joshua trees for a sprawling solar energy project near his Mojave Desert home last week, he started taking photos. “Once the trees go ...

Residents in Boron and Desert Lake, California have spoken out against a project to clear out thousands of Joshua trees to make room for solar panels.

Alex Beckett, the chair of the committee, agreed areas of the A14 "still looks like a desert out there" when the trees "should be thriving". He said it was "incredibly frustrating" National Highways ...

Earth is hotter than it has been in 125,000 years, scientists say, and Las Vegas continues to break temperature records. The ...

The desert may seem like the last place you'd expect to find flora. Yet the Desert Botanical Garden is home to thousands of species of cacti, trees and flowers from all around the world.

How to save a desert oasis—before it vanishes completely. For centuries, hundreds of millions of people have relied on desert wetlands that are now disappearing.

Along the edge of the Taklimakan Desert, towns and villages in Northwest China’ s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region are ...