And on all sides, the air is alive with the songs of desert birds. The deserts of the Southwest provide excellent birding.

After thousands of rare Chilean cacti were found in the house of an Italian collector, a years-long trial slowly unravelled ...

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 ...

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.