Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As monsoon rains bring much needed water to Arizona’s deserts, you may notice some of the state’s beloved shell-backed reptiles on ...

Seven years of carefully planned habitat restoration on private land in the Mojave Desert have yielded hope for the persistence of the endangered Amargosa vole. In early August, a photograph from a ...

A federal judge has made 2,200 miles of Western Mojave Desert trails off-limits to off-roading bikers and drivers, in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It is estimated that around 33% of the earth's landscape, or around 57,308,738 square miles of land, are classified as deserts.

The Bureau of Land Management was ordered to close down popular off-roading trails in parts of the Mojave in order to protect the imperiled desert tortoise.

Although sunlight is one of the cleanest forms of renewable energy available, clearing large swathes of desert habitat to build solar arrays has consequences for the plants and animals it displaces.

A new report from the Arizona Game and Fish Department showed the state's unchecked feral burro population is destroying keystone plant species in the Sonoran Desert. Wildlife scientists studied plant ...

“About Habitats: Deserts” by Cathryn Sill, illustrated by John Sill, 2007, Peachtree Publishers, $16.95, hardbound, 41 pages: Before the text even begins, “Deserts” displays a nifty color map ...

A lot has changed in the Morongo Basin over the past 15 years. Joshua Tree National Park’s annual visitation has increased from around 1.2 million people in 2006 to nearly 3 million people in 2019.

Inside Look stories give Star-Telegram subscribers exclusive sneak peeks and behind-the-scenes reporting. Story suggestion? Editors@star-telegram.com. The Fort Worth Zoo’s Mountains and Desert habitat ...