The desert rose, Adenium obesum, is a striking shrub native to arid regions of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Despite its name, it is not a rose but a succulent, so called for its beautiful blooms ...
There's still gold in them thar hills. As the price of the precious metal climbs to record highs, prospectors are buying up ...
Grazing animals can destroy many desert plants and animals ... and plant sand-fixing bushes and trees. Planting leguminous plants, which extract nitrogen from the air and fix it in the ground ...
Natural selection isn't just something that happens to organisms, their activities also play a role, giving some species – ...
A woman's shirt dangles from the branch of a bush in the Santa Teresa Desert in southern New Mexico. (Pauline Hovey) I've never been fond of the desert. My move here had been more about what I'd ...
We're working to gain long-overdue critical habitat designation and a recovery plan for the jaguar and to restore protections slashed by the Bush administration for species like the flycatcher, pygmy ...
Projects by Israeli nonprofits to introduce this species and other non-native trees, in other words, may not be conducive to ...
It’s a desert that’s home to four of Oregon’s seven Critical Groundwater Areas, so designated because of water supply problems. The Lower Umatilla Basin is also a state-designated Groundwater ...
The plight of drought-hit farmers in Australia has prompted an outpouring of sympathy across a country that has long mythologised the inhospitable "bush" and ... to "farm the desert" as some ...
I went into a tree, a bush like this, and they just started spraying ... a camping area and bar and food area - was in the Negev desert, near Kibbutz Re'im. It was not far from the Gaza Strip ...