DRI: In your recent field work, have you seen many native Mojave plants germinating in the deserts around Las Vegas? Pereira: Unfortunately, we've had quite a bit of a drought year, with 217 days ...

The disappearance of the Mojave poppy bee is part of a troubling decline in many of the 4,000-plus species of native, wild, mostly solitary bees in the United States that are needed to pollinate the ...

Plants that biologists find work well include creosote bushes, brittlebrush and others that would have naturally occurred in the Mojave Desert. “The better we manage and sustain the water in the ...

In August 2020, a 43,000-acre fire killed more than a million Joshua trees in the nearby Mojave National Preserve. Though the plants have existed for some 2.5 million years, ecologists warn that ...

Desert plants may have to go without fresh water ... energy has also created some tensions for desert habitats. In the Mojave, the 2013 arrival of the Ivanpah solar thermal plant created concerns ...

Holmgren's milk vetch is so finely adapted to its arid northern Mojave Desert environment that it's often the only plant found alive atop special soils strewn with small stones and gravel deposits.