High Desert summers require specific gardening techniques due to extreme heat. Try growing these heat-tolerant plants this ...

In Chile's arid Atacama, the driest desert in the world, growers and researchers are looking to harness water from the very ...

How to save a desert oasis—before it vanishes completely. For centuries, hundreds of millions of people have relied on desert wetlands that are now disappearing.

Today, the world pauses to mark the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, an annual reminder of the urgent need to protect and restore land degraded by human activity and climate change.The ...

The numbers are significant: 235,000 hectares, 100-plus years of cattle grazing, and countless camels, donkeys and rabbits.

For gardeners and plant people of all sorts who live in the Coachella Valley, summer is a trying time. While many edibles and ornamentals can be grown through the area's mellow winters and can ...

Diving deeper, we explore some of the world's desert regions and highlight what we consider to be some of the most breathtaking landscapes.

Non-native trees keep proliferating in newer subdivisions, despite repeated efforts by environmentalists and landscapers to promote natives, a UA study has found. People plant non-natives partly ...

Mr Penton said one camel for every 1,000 prickly acacia plants was an ideal ratio. Geoff Penton says the second phase of the camel trial is underway. ( Supplied: Desert Channels Queensland ) ...

These tough, hardy plants saw the dinosaurs come and go, and their relatives are found all around the world. These cycads form a striking understorey to the spotted gum.

Mauritania residents say the desert is their destiny. Chinguetti is one of four UNESCO World Heritage sites in Mauritania, a West African nation where only 0.5% of land is considered farmable.