North America’s driest desert, by growing extremely slowly - only when water is available. This individual plant is over 10,000 years old. One of the oldest organisms on Earth. they buy time for ...

In 1969, scientists found the remains of a fossilized plant at Utah's Green River Formation and named it "Othniophyton ...

The world's largest solar power plant ever built in a desert is currently under construction on the outskirts of Dalat. The conditions for the large-scale project are apparently favorable.

Grazing animals can destroy many desert plants and animals ... find new ways to rotate crops to protect the fragile soil, and plant sand-fixing bushes and trees. Planting leguminous plants ...

In the Mojave, the 2013 arrival of the Ivanpah solar thermal plant created concerns about how the facility would affect threatened desert tortoises, and conservationists are working to ensure ...

High Desert resident Gary Overstreet is a big advocate for growing garlic in the winter. Although late fall is the ideal time to plant garlic for an early spring harvest, the underground bulbs ...