Tierra Atacama just reopened in the Chilean high-altitude desert. Travel + Leisure was the first to stay—read our full review ...

On a Tuesday 140 million years ago, the western part of the giant southern supercontinent of Gondwana comprising Africa and ...

Quaglia mainly covers biodiversity — the variety of animals, plants, fungi, and even microorganisms like ... who smuggled over 1,000 rare Copiapoa cacti out of the Chilean Atacama Desert, one of the ...

"The Illustrated Flora of Burkina Faso and Mali" is the first comprehensive documentation of the remarkable plant diversity ...

Thomas Richard Marsh, an astrophysicist at University of Warwick, was last seen a week ago near the astronomical observatory La Silla on the outskirts of the Atacama Desert where he is understood ...

Saharan mustard threatens desert plant diversity and hampers recovery from climate fluctuations. Once believed to be ...

Guayule is a shrub native to the Chihuahua desert in Mexico, but farmers in Arizona are growing it and selling it to rubber manufacturers.

Steve Blackwell, conservation collections manager at Desert Botanical Garden, and his team found themselves stumped by a ...