You'll be amazed by the ways desert birds survive and thrive in dry country. Learn about the bird species that live in ...

A cactus is typically viewed as the ultimate hands-off, fuss-free, impossible-to-kill plant. So, you can imagine our horror ...

But reaching out of nooks in the cracked crust along the desert's coast, there lie thousands of Copiapoa cacti. A cactus group made up of more than 30 species, Copiapoa are found only in Chile.

There are two types of cacti – desert types and forest types. Desert cacti are very hardy and thrive in full sun, low water, ...

Other plants, such as cacti, have special means of storing and conserving water. In existing deserts, some species are in peril because of climate change. Global warming threatens to change the ...

This section of the Sonoran Desert near the border between Arizona ... this park preserves the only large concentration of organ pipe cacti in the country, as well as hundreds of other native plant ...

Yet the Desert Botanical Garden is home to thousands of species of cacti, trees and flowers from all around the world. The garden's brightly colored plants sharply contrast the Sonoran Desert's ...