The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today protected the swale paintbrush as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. This ...

Desert marigold is a cheerful, sun-loving perennial native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. This plant ...

Researchers have found a more sustainable way to produce energy using plants that can survive in dry conditions such as ...

Little rain falls in the Chihuahuan, but the Rio Grande River - known as the Rio Bravo in Mexico - flows through the desert, providing a lifeline for all these animal and plants species, and the ...

Ben had been monitoring satellite data of the weather over a remote desert in Northern Mexico - the Gran Desierto ... the dried dead plants, fade away… until all that remains are seeds in ...

The swale paintbrush grows only in one small area of southwest New Mexico, though historically it grew throughout Chihuahua ...