Something magical is happening in the barren landscape of the Atacama Desert in Chile, considered the driest place on our planet with annual precipitation that can only be measured at a fraction of an ...

David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...

On a rare "super bloom" year in California, Edom Hill near Palm Springs typically turns green with vegetation, signaling the impending crush of wildflowers across the state's deserts. For that to ...

California's wildflower superbloom gives Coachella a run for its money as the most popular seasonal event in the desert. Bright orange, salmon, crimson, and yellow flowers fulminate over the arid ...

GOLD IN THE DESERT: Plenty of prospectors famously went in search of gold in and around the arid stretches of California, and history tells us that they frequently came up gold-less and empty-handed.

On a rare "super bloom" year in California, Edom Hill near Palm Springs typically turns green with vegetation, signaling the impending crush of wildflowers across the state's deserts. For that to ...

Cactuses are an integral part of the Arizona landscape — especially the tall saguaros that tower over swaths of the desert. Each year in the late spring, white blossoms emerge in the desert, crowning ...

Tropical Storm Hilary’s historic rains are great news for wildflower lovers — if you’re into shy desert blooms like the arcing spikes of fringed amaranth (Amaranthus fimbriatus), pops of purple from ...

LLANOS DE CHALLE NATIONAL PARK, Chile (AP) — A rare bloom in Chile’s Atacama Desert has briefly transformed one of the world’s driest places into a dazzling carpet of fuchsia-colored wildflowers. The ...

El Pasoans enjoyed the return of Poppies Fest over the weekend. The March-long, city-sponsored festival celebrating the golden poppies began on Saturday, March 9, at the El Paso Museum of Archaeology, ...

“Who was it that invented that horrible euphemism ‘disappeared’?” Isabel Allende asks in the foreword to this chilling volume of photographs, interviews, and stories released for the first time ...