Dust storms are raging across much of New Mexico. The National Weather Service pushed emergency alerts to cellphones that warned of zero-visibility road conditions and adverse health consequences for ...

Reptiles in Oregon's high desert are quite widespread, though few are especially common. You may see lots at some times and ...

arid desert lands with the fewest roads and dominated by flora such as creosote bushes and white bursage desert scrub or mixed desert salt scrub. RANGE: In California, the desert kit fox lives in the ...

jackrabbits and eagles live in the desert scrub. Little rain falls in the Chihuahuan, but the Rio Grande River - known as the Rio Bravo in Mexico - flows through the desert, providing a lifeline for ...

HABITAT: The Quino checkerspot may occupy a variety of habitat types — including grasslands, coastal sage scrub, chamise chaparral, red shank chaparral, juniper woodland, and semi-desert scrub — that ...