Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Millicent Harvey's close up of smoke tree bloom. “To know the smoke tree is an experience; but one cannot know it at its ...

If you're looking for a less crowded spot in California's Mojave Desert, you can head to this designated wilderness area and ...

From the archive: This story originally published in The Desert Sun in June 2020. “To know the smoke tree is an experience; but one cannot know it at its strikingly best unless he has seen it in full ...

LAS VEGAS — On a sun-parched stretch of West Charleston Boulevard, Norm Schilling pulled his truck over to the side of the road just to visit his favorite tree. Schilling, a local horticulturalist who ...

For the past 15 years, Philip Rundel has been developing this book through his long-term relationship and travels in deserts of the Southwestern United States, northern Chile and southern Africa. His ...

APRIL IN THE CALIFORNIA DESERT? It's a month you could confidently deem especially "festival-forward," thanks to all of the sizable under-the-sun celebrations. These parties are usually awash in art, ...

From the spiky silhouettes of Joshua trees to the glowing Cholla Cactus Garden at sunset, Joshua Tree National Park is a road tripper’s dream. Linking scenic desert drives with epic hikes, stargazing, ...

California’s biggest wildfire of the year — burning through delicate Joshua tree forests along the California-Nevada border — is an unusual desert blaze being fueled in part by the rapid growth of ...

That’s what I heard from my kids every time I stopped to admire the beauty, graceful form and, of course, shade of a tree. I love trees. So, when the city of Palm Desert designed phase two of its San ...

Tucson, Ariz., lies in the heart of the Sonoran Desert where summers are serious business. In 2024, a record-breaking 112 days brought temperatures over 100 degrees.

Increasingly frequent and severe heat waves in the Southwest are damaging some desert plants known for thriving in harsh conditions. Saguaro cacti and agave have both suffered in sweltering weather ...