Joe Davidson, the owner of Cactus Joe’s, a nursery located off Blue Diamond Road in the southwest Las Vegas valley, has been ...

High snow and endless fences made for a lethal combination that researchers and wildlife advocates are working to change.

While walking in Big Bend National Park in Texas' Chihuahuan Desert, a park volunteer came across a fuzzy flower that turned ...

Grab your watering can, scout out the best spots for sunlight, and let’s meet the indoor flowering plants that would be ...

A: There are two types of cacti – desert types and forest types. Desert cacti are very hardy and thrive in full sun, low water, and good drainage. Christmas (and Easter) cacti are forest cacti and are ...

Nature is anything but ordinary. Just when you think you’ve seen all the stunning flowers, towering trees, and breathtaking ...

Ocotillo is a unique desert shrub native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. This plant features long, spiny canes that produce clusters of bright red flowers in the spring.

Researchers bombarded lichens with a year's worth of Martian radiation in just 5 hours — and they survived, hinting that the ...

A trail from Alice Springs takes hikers through a baking landscape of mountains, pools, plants and trees that inspired an Aboriginal artist.

Rolling grasslands stretched across the peninsula, dotted with lakes and wetlands where herds of elephants, gazelles, and ...

As dawn broke in the eastern sky, it was -5 degrees on a crystal clear February morning at Bosque del Apache National ...