April through June is when the 5,000+ elevation areas on mountain slopes start to see blooms. Desert mariposa, blackbush, beavertail cactus, and desert fiddleneck wildflowers begin blooming around ...

One of the rarest species on Earth, the Devils Hole pupfish, came close to extinction in recent months, thanks to an earthquake 500 miles from their deep desert cave. Now, worried scientists and ...

New study ranks Big Bend National Park and Guadalupe Mountains National Park in Texas in top 10 for wildlife watching.

Southwest Texas is the location of some pretty amazing parks, and I had the opportunity to visit two of them: Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico and Guadalupe Mountains National Park in ...

Desalination can create millions of gallons of fresh water a day. But it is expensive and there are many environmental ...

We have a happy update about a dog that was seen in a heartbreaking video being abandoned in Surprise last month. Benji, a 2-year-old chihuahua, was adopted by a Surprise Police officer.

The animal rights people in this country, Carole Baskin, and all those people have made it so that people like me who have animals have ... the cats loose in the desert around his property.” ...

Adrian HeddenCarlsbad [email protected] Leo Cahill called his father before entering the Parks Ranch Cave at about 5:10 p.m., March 20. He told Creed Cahill to… ...

BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, Texas — A Texas treasure is the focus of a bipartisan bill recently introduced in Congress. If passed, it would expand Big Bend National Park in West Texas. U.S. Senators ...

But overlooking this place means dismissing its significance as a gateway to the American West, a status born of that rarest of things: fresh water at the edge of the Chihuahuan Desert.

Twenty miles across the desert, Mexican artist Jose Davila has stacked colossal 16-ton marble boulders that were quarried in the Chihuahua Desert of his nearby home country. The work is titled “The ...