By Matt Simon for Grist. Broadcast version by Suzanne Potter for Nevada News Service reporting for the Grist-Public News ...

With blooms breaking out all over, here are the best spots to experience the amazing world of wildflowers this spring in ...

Another year, another chance to see hills dusted in orange or snap pictures of desert sunflowers. Did the rain help?

Joshua Tree Trail begins at an opening in the fence behind the parking lot’s large sign for Wee Thump Joshua Tree Wilderness.

Mojave desert wildflowers : a field guide to the wildflowers, trees, and shrubs of the Mojave Desert, including the Mojave National Preserve, Death Valley National Park, and Joshua Tree National Park ...

A journey into one valley, exploding with color, leads to a ghost town with its own colorful past. California’s Mojave Desert can be a brutal place but, in the spring, after heavy rains, a brief ...

A dog sitting in a field of wildflowers in California's Anza Borrego Desert State Park. © Don Paulson/SuperStock/Corbis Despite record-breaking low temperatures ...

After a wetter-than-usual winter and early bursts of color across Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, a familiar question is ...

When driving through the Mojave National Preserve, one of the largest national park units in the contiguous United States, it’s easy to imagine that the entire vast desert landscape is a single piece ...