Researchers are working to unravel the hidden biology of often-persnickety seeds as they age, sleep and awaken ...

This beloved nonprofit, which relies on philanthropic support to operate, has served the region for more than 50 years.

The leading candidates in Saturday’s national election have starkly different policies on energy and global warming.

Under a sun that scorches the land and in the heart of a landscape many would call unyielding, the Warlpiri people have ...

These 1,000-pound creatures travel in large herds and can smell water miles away. Now, the race is on to stop them from ...

At the Desert Botanical Garden, researchers can request plants that have been catalogued over 80 years to understand genetic ...

Grass fires burn far more American homes each year than forest fires. In southern Arizona, communities fight fires that never ...

Endemic to the Perth region of Western Australia (WA), the turtle frog (Myobatrachus gouldii) is a small, chubby and utterly adorable frog that's full of evolutionary surprises. Discovered in 1841 ...

around one-third of the plants’ capacity goes missing. Johanna Bowyer, lead analyst in Australian electricity at IEEFA, says a total of 13 coal-fired power stations, totalling 8 gigawatts (GW ...

Among these, the Thar Desert, an arid zone of approximately 200,000 square kilometers across northwestern India and southeastern Pakistan, holds the highest population density of any desert worldwide.