Demonstrators gathered at Civic League Park in San Angelo as part of nationwide "No Kings" protests on Saturday.

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The Blooming Of Desert Annuals Is Over, but not that of the region's stolid desert willows and smoke trees. Rooted in the beds of dry washes throughout Anza-Borrego’s lower valleys, both plants ...

But this week, Covington Flats caught on fire, demonstrating the vulnerability of even the few landscapes deemed viable for Joshua trees in a Joshua Tree National Park redefined by climate change.

Storms moved across the desert on Tuesday afternoon, with the most serious effects felt in the high desert of San Bernardino County.

But where the Santa Cruz River flows, you’ll find something like an oasis. Birds sing among dense copses of mesquite trees; flowers hang heavily from bushes; ocelots and jaguars pass through.

Karzakkan forest is a shaded corridor of mesquite trees arched like a natural cathedral. As I stepped beneath them, the air cooled — a rare mercy in Bahrain’s bleached landscape.

Long a draw for artists, creatives, and seekers, Joshua Tree and the surrounding High Desert towns offer no shortage of chic hotels, restaurants, and shops.

With their tiny arms and powerful legs, jerboas are like miniature, furry T-Rexes built for desert survival. Discover the fascinating adaptations that help these remarkable creatures thrive in one ...

A large ancient Egyptian fortress in the northern Sinai Desert had an elaborate landscape of 500 trees leading to its entrance more than 2,000 years ago, new excavations reveal. Archaeologists ...