A symbiotic relationship is best defined as two organisms living together where one or both benefit from the relationship and ...

Even in the ultra-dry Atacama Desert, tiny soil-dwelling nematodes are thriving in surprising diversity. Scientists found ...

A drought has a beginning and an end. What's happening in the West doesn't seem to have an end, so what is it?

In the arid, cracked desert ground in Southern California, a tiny bee pokes its head out of a hole no larger than the tip of a crayon. Krystle Hickman ...

Sand cats leave no tracks. To find out more about these elusive felines, researchers fitted half a dozen of them with GPS collars.

See California at its most cinematic in March with destinations filled with wildflowers, scenic drives, and unforgettable ...

Late winter is the best time to camp in the desert, in my humble opinion. Daytime temperatures are milder, and the evenings are brisk. Before this trip, it had been months since my last one.

The 1.5-mile loop in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park gives hikers an expansive view of the landscape, including of the Laguna Mountains to the southwest ...

A lawsuit filed by the Shoshone Tribe challenges mineral mining near Death Valley National Park. Drilling for zeolite, a mineral used in kitty litter, could disrupt the groundwater that sustains the ...

The desert tortoise, a once-resilient reptile, is a keystone species in the Mojave Desert, where other animals depend for their survival on the burrows it digs. But it is imperiled in California ...

As you start planning your garden beds this year, make sure you include a good assortment of native plants that support our native pollinators in your plans. Native plants have evolved with our native ...