The plant’s contortions have won generations ... In August 2020, a 43,000-acre fire killed more than a million Joshua trees in the nearby Mojave National Preserve. Though the plants have existed ...

or the practice of using art to create meticulously detailed drawings of plants and animals. By utilizing her artistic skills, she realized she could produce a guide of Mojave plant seeds and ...

they’re often the largest plants on the landscapes in which they grow. They’re culturally prominent as a symbol of the Mojave ...

Eastern Joshua trees live in California in the Mojave National Preserve ... We don’t know how old the oldest Joshua tree is, but they can live upwards of 300 years. Growing just an inch or 2 inches ...

The Mojave Desert gets a more than 3,200 hours of sunshine on average per year, making it a prime spot for producing solar energy. A measure was introduced in Sacramento that would give rideshare ...

Holmgren's milk vetch is so finely adapted to its arid northern Mojave Desert environment that it's often the only plant found alive atop special soils strewn with small stones and gravel deposits.

As greenhouse gas emissions nudge temperatures higher, trees’ growing ranges are shifting northward, projections from the U.S. Forest Service show. Trees near the southern edge of their ...

Deserts such as the Mojave Desert in California are some of the hottest places on earth. Despite this, many thousands of plant species can live there. Some plants, like cacti, can store water in ...