Large wildfires in the desert were once rare. Now experts worry that invasive plants and a changing fire cycle are putting ...

Protecting and conserving our natural heritage, predicting weather and environmental conditions, preventing and managing pollution, promoting clean growth and a sustainable environment for present and ...

Desert lizards face unique challenges because food is scarce and the weather is frequently too hot to forage. The study found climate warming can 'squeeze' desert lizard energy budgets by increasing ...

The desert is one of the harshest environments to live in. It can be extremely hot during the day and freezing cold at night. There is sparse vegetation and little shade. The terrain is often rough, ...

But around a million years ago, the climate dried up and the trees vanished. The landscape turned to a Mojave-like desert shrub land — an extremely arid place that seemed inhospitable for early ...

This post was paid for by an advertiser. The Gazette-Mail newsroom was not involved in its creation. Scottsdale stands out as a vibrant desert city in Arizona, well-known for its beautiful Sonoran ...

“That success came down to their ability to survive over a long period marked by many changes to the environment and climate,” added University ... 1.2 million and one million years ago, semi-desert ...

Reference: “Homo erectus adapted to steppe-desert climate extremes one million years ago” by Julio Mercader, Pamela Akuku, Nicole Boivin, Alfredo Camacho, Tristan Carter, Siobhán Clarke, Arturo Cueva ...

At a site called Oldupai Gorge in Tanzania, researchers have found evidence that one of our early ancestors, Homo erectus, wasn’t just surviving but thriving in harsh desert-like conditions ... to the ...

The garden has five walkable trails: the Sonoran Desert Nature Trail, Center for Desert Living Trail, Desert Discovery Trail, Harriet K. Maxwell Desert Wildflower Trail and Plants & People of the ...

The first leg of the corridor, the $30 million Sonoran Desert Parkway, opened in the fall of 2023 connecting Porter Road to John Wayne Parkway near Harrah’s Ak-Chin Casino. The opening came after ...

The IAF's 120th "Desert Giants" Squadron, previously known as "The International Squadron," has participated in several historic missions. Its first major mission was to drop supplies to Yemen's ...