Researchers have discovered a unique lagoon ecosystem in Argentina’s high Puna de Atacama Desert, they announced at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union last week. The ecosystem, which ...

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The result of climate change on the desert ecosystem could be a weedier and more barren landscape, as taller trees and plants shift to higher elevations and decline in numbers, while smaller brush ...

The Mojave Desert Land Trust is working to scout, catalogue, collect and preserve millions of seeds from 250 species and counting in a race to save an ecosystem.

California City, CA - October 10: Lisa LaVelle, a naturalist, holds a desert tortoise hatchling that she found crawling in patio of her Ridgecrest home. LaVelle warns that it is against the law to ...

It's a very special place in a lot of ways, being a desert ecosystem. The vegetation assemblages are quite diverse, although in a — sort of a subtle way, not a large array of trees, for example.

Some of the Southwest’s most iconic desert trees are running for their lives in what could be a grim harbinger for more temperate ecosystems across the West. A study in Functional Ecology offers ...

Like the tortoise, many desert plants live a long time, and the entire desert ecosystem operates on a slower timescale than other environments. The creosote bush, for instance, is one of the ...

‘Seeds are life’: How a seed bank in the Mojave Desert is preserving an ancient ecosystem By CNN Newsource May 23, 2024 4:22 AM Published May 23, 2024 1:18 AM ...