They hoard water, manufacture food at night and con their helpers into working for free. Beneath their celebrated blooms, desert wildflowers are survivalists — plants that vigorously defend their ...

Despite the somewhat harsh desert climate, the streets and gardens of Qatar’s towns and cities are a riot of colour, the air ...

“Desert Flower” is a weighty biopic that by all rights should have bloomed more fully than it does in the hands of writer-director Sherry Hormann. That said, a lovely performance by Ethiopian ...

Nowadays, when life for the vast majority of population has been reduced to plain survival in smog-entombed cities, where breathing means inhaling other people's coughs, sneezes and various exhausts, ...

California's wildflower superbloom gives Coachella a run for its money as the most popular seasonal event in the desert. Bright orange, salmon, crimson, and yellow flowers fulminate over the arid ...

Gertrude Jekyll would have loved our desert palette if she hadn't been born in Victorian England. This "mother" of the color-centric English perennial border often utilized soft grays, cool colors and ...

COPIAPÓ, Chile — Here’s a softer side to the disruptive weather phenomenon known as El Niño: an enormous blanket of colorful flowers has carpeted Chile’s Atacama desert, the most arid in the world.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, California survey, 1995. Image on file. (On plaque on wall of building:) Desert Star (copyright symbol) 1992/Robert Perless/Fabricated by:/Robert Perless/Stephen ...