Higher temperatures may produce an increasing number of wildfires that alter desert landscapes by eliminating slow-growing trees and shrubs and replacing them with fast-growing grasses.

Read about a new Mojave Plant Seed & Seedling Guide created by DRI's Tiffany Pereira, a scientist and illustrator. Pereira tells us what inspired the project, how it fills a gap in scientific ...

In fact, scientists have successfully sprouted desert seeds found to be 2,000 years old ... like the larger shrubs, responding to the decent rain we had in February, but there are very few ...

(ABC News: Xavier Martin) Yalti Napangati digs for "maku" — witchetty grubs — beneath acacia shrubs ... small desert mammals. A food that was always in plentiful supply, was the seeds of ...