and many other rare plants and animals adapted to live in harsh desert environments. Congress designated the area in 1976, and the 1994 California Desert Protection Act further increased protection by ...

Far from being barren wastelands, deserts are biologically rich habitats with a vast array of animals ... Many desert plants can live for hundreds of years. But in California, the iconic Joshua ...

Once thought resistant to invasion, regional deserts are losing native plants to aggressive weedy species like Saharan ...

“The Western Mojave’s desert tortoises are sliding toward extinction, so it’s long past time for the Bureau of Land Management to curb these vehicles’ threats to the tortoises and all the rare plants ...

California's deserts are losing native plants to aggressive weedy species like Saharan mustard. New research shows its spread is disrupting biodiversity and reducing the desert's ability to ...