To protect the southwest’s iconic Joshua trees, scientists are tinkering with their genetics and searching for climate havens ...

Huge-scale ecological engineering around the edges of one of the world's largest and driest deserts has turned it into a carbon sink that absorbs more CO2 than it emits, research suggests.

China has spent decades turning the edge of the Taklamakan Desert into a living barrier, planting trees and shrubs where bare ...

China’s vast tree-planting drive around the Taklamakan Desert may be turning shifting sands into a carbon sink. But can ...

China's ambitious "Great Green Wall" project has transformed the arid edges of the Taklamakan Desert into a significant ...

As large solar projects become more common across the Mountain West, questions remain about their environmental footprint, ...

Discover drought-tolerant native desert trees—whitethorn acacia, catclaw mimosa and screwbean mesquite—that shelter songbirds ...

From the archive: This story originally published in The Desert Sun in June 2020. “To know the smoke tree is an experience; but one cannot know it at its strikingly best unless he has seen it in full ...

For more than four decades, China has been working to halt the spread of desertification through the Three-North Shelterbelt ...

There are a number of efforts around the Valley to plant more trees — both as a way to help cool the air and to provide more ...

Set in Southern California, my HO scale layout includes a Southern Pacific train order office surrounded by a desert scene. Although this arid landscape has sparse vegetation, my scene needed two ...