The Atacama Desert in northern Chile is one of the driest places on Earth, but swaths of its usually barren sand are currently carpeted with a colorful bloom of white and purple flowers. The Atacama ...

"I want to keep bees." she said. "What plants should I grow for them here? This simple question is challenging in the desert because it's hard to grow traditional "pollinator" flowers in our climate.

In arid regions around the world, from ancient Greece to Morocco, it is always the small walled space that becomes the living area. Protected from wind, blowing sand and reflected heat, these are ...

"This very arid soil houses a treasure," ecologist María Fernanda Pérez told Live Science after the Atacama Desert produced a rare winter bloom. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

A ‘super bloom’ may be in the eye of the beholder, but the winter’s rain and snow promises a bumper crop of spring blooms in Southern California and Arizona. Rancher’s fireweed at Carrizo Plain ...

Wildflowers are blooming in the Atacama Desert, an inhospitable stretch of land west of the Andes Mountains that normally ...

You might have been driving around Tucson these last few weeks and noticed our beloved saguaros have been sporting new hairdos. No, they're not growing baby avocados at the crown of their heads. These ...