The University of Arizona’s Data Diversity Lab gives researchers a new way to picture the future of life on Earth. By blending ecology, evolution and advanced data science, the lab creates tools aimed ...

Justin Stewart, an ecologist with the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks, collects a sample of soil containing mycorrhizal fungi taken at Saguaro National Park. Credit: Wyatt ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Most scientists today agree that North America has four distinct desert regions: the Great Basin, ...

Our little corner of the Sonoran Desert gets the full David Attenborough treatment in a new BBC nature documentary set to premiere on PBS on July 27. Tumamoc Hill, Saguaro National Park and Phoenix’s ...

Spring has once again returned to the deserts of North America, and with her return, so too have the amazing colorful blooms of desert wildflowers and cacti. Because of the winter rains, this land, so ...

These members of the genus Schulumbergea are endemic to a very small habitat along the southeast coast of Brazil. They grow in a series of coastal mountain ranges highly influenced by the proximity of ...

Inspired by a beetle's shell, a cactus spine, and the skin of a carnivorous plant, this slick, bumpy coating is a material straight out of Dune or Star Wars. Put this water-saving coating into a rain ...