And on all sides, the air is alive with the songs of desert birds. The deserts of the Southwest provide excellent birding. These arid lands support a rich variety of birds, including some birds that ...

Let nature be your guide as you immerse in the beauty of our desert wilds. Here are six places to enjoy the outdoors.

But the only secluded shady spots in the desert are often right next to a cholla cactus, so contact is inevitable! But even worse was the array of dislodged pads on or in the ground already ...

Damages of €20,000 were paid to ABC for its legal costs and to further its conservation work in very desert the plants came ...

but don't touch the fuzzy-looking cactus. Entrance to the garden is free. Visit the NPS website for more information about the other cacti species you'll spot. Climbers flock to Joshua Tree from ...

Visitors who arrive mid-February through mid-June will see an abundance of blooming cactus ... Yet the Desert Botanical Garden is home to thousands of species of cacti, trees and flowers from ...

ocotillo and cholla cactus. The higher, slightly cooler Mojave Desert offers dazzling vistas of Joshua trees and yucca. The vast park also contains spectacularly sculpted formations of a type of rock ...

The Caminantes organise yearly cactus watering tours, but it's little in the face of the desert's extended droughts ... like the Lorax and speak for the trees", says Phelps, who wrote a paper ...

The population of the Key Largo tree cactus has been wiped from the Florida Keys. While scientists are now working on a potential restoration, more species will likely see similar fates as climate ...