“I could take you to a field of dead creosote bushes with nice wildflowers ... re watching that dynamic play out in real time. How desert plants, animals and local economies adapt to the changes ...

Regarding desert plants, there are lots to pick from ... Should I wait to spot new growth in the spring, and cut back all the dead, burned leaves and branches now? Some burned out completely ...

The Southwest is no stranger to sweltering conditions, and desert plants and trees are drought ... of “severe decline,” Schilling said, with dead, brown leaves still adorning withered branches ...

Some desert plants have developed a very different way ... and it produces a stench like the carcass of a dead animal. ♪ ♪ And when a carrion fly investigates... ♪ the flower clamps a ...

An American desert icon is dying off in the southwestern United States. Experts say record-setting summers and intense ...

Made to withstand the harsh climate of the desert and thrive in it, the dead and decaying desert plants throughout the Sonoran landscape may be perplexing to those who see it. But even the ...

Bottom line: Adding at least some of these native shrubs to your desert landscape will go a long ... pomegranate get the name “the fruit of the dead?” Why was rosemary traditionally placed ...

For those unaccustomed to watching the desert burn, the new fire regime ... Unprecedented heat and near-record dryness ensured that all those dead plants and perennial grasses were primed to ...

Whatever is determined enough to exist there — people, plants, animals ... a bridge across the greatest void. The desert, in its dryness, keeps the dead and opens the sky.

From rocky outcrops to sandy dunes, trees, shrubs, and bushes, remind us that the desert is not dead: but it’s the blooms of AlUla’s desert wildflowers that often appear most remarkable.