"Building ecological civilization concerns the well-being of the people and the future of the nation." Chinese President Xi ...

California’s biggest wildfire of the year — burning through delicate Joshua tree forests along the California-Nevada border — is an unusual desert blaze being fueled in part by the rapid growth of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Millicent Harvey's close up of smoke tree bloom. “To know the smoke tree is an experience; but one cannot know it at its ...

All eyes are on Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, where wildflowers are spreading across the landscape. Brianna Pinto is a California State Park interpreter and says while they never know how big a ...

The Sahara Desert is crawling forward like a silent invader, swallowing farmland and forcing families in the Sahel to fight ...

Increasingly frequent and severe heat waves in the Southwest are damaging some desert plants known for thriving in harsh conditions. Saguaro cacti and agave have both suffered in sweltering weather ...

A project to install solar panels around the Mojave Desert has begun cutting down thousands of Joshua trees, much to the residents’ chagrin. The Los Angeles Times reported several citizens across ...

Mass tree planting in China is turning one of the world's largest and driest deserts into a carbon sink, meaning it absorbs more carbon from the atmosphere than it emits, new research reveals. The ...

In Southern California, a massive wildfire is burning through the Mojave Desert Preserve — threatening endangered Joshua trees. The cause of the York Fire is under investigation. California is seeing ...

Vines are an easy, organic way to jazz up desert trees. If you have a lackluster paloverde or mesquite tree in your yard, training a vine up a trunk adds color and interest. In fact, even a dead tree ...