Enjoy year-round garden color with these 14 flowering desert plants
Perennials, shrubs and small trees native to the Chihuahuan Desert give color to San Antonio gardens while providing food and ...
This alien-like field of mirrors in the desert was once the future of solar energy. It’s closing after just 11 years
From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a vast alien-like installation of hundreds of thousand of mirrors pointed at three towers, ...
Desert plants' clever survival trick: Two dormancy cycles a year ensure survival in harsh conditions
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 ...
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Desert Plants Survive With Biannual Dormancy Cycles
A Research team led by Prof. HUANG Zhenying from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has ...
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10 Amazing Flower Fields in the United States
Springtime is one of my favorite times of year. After a season blanketed in snow or draped in cold, the earth begins to spring to life once more – literally spring. Animals come out of ...
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Seeds for the future; Mojave Desert Land Trust banks plants to ensure future of desert ecology
Since its founding in 2006, the Mojave Desert Land Trust has conserved over 100,000 acres, conveying more tracts of land to ...