The high desert is a challenging place to survive. Summer days are hot and winter nights are cold. The region is very arid and sometimes it doesn't rain for three months. Food is difficult to ...

A research team led by Prof. Huang Zhenying from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has discovered a remarkable survival strategy—a unique seed dormancy cycling mechanism ...

The activities are driving desert tortoises and other threatened and endangered ... vehicle opportunities in fragile desert tortoise habitats over the species’ survival.” The judge also ruled that the ...