Joshua trees are jumping the gun on flowering this year, and researchers say the timing glitch could ripple through the Mojave Desert ecosystem. The spiky desert icons, found across California, Nevada ...

China has quietly developed a man-made forest in the Gobi Desert that is now producing high-quality rubber for military and industrial use.

Joshua trees look timeless, which makes early blooms feel almost harmless at first glance. Scientists see something more specific: a signal that environmental cues may be shifting in ways that can ...

It’s always useful to keep in mind that when we buy a certain variety of fruit tree we are the beneficiaries of clonal propagation; that is, the fruit we harvest is coming from canopy growth (called a ...

Most think of shallow dishes crowded with tiny, drought-resistant plants when it comes to succulents gardening. But why not ...

Since the fig forms its fruit on shoots that start to grow in the spring, it can be radically pruned in the winter without ...

The date shake, a blend of dates and ice cream, originated in the 1930s in California’s Coachella Valley and became a symbol ...

Joshua trees, the iconic spiky succulents that typically flower between February and April, began blooming in mid-November ...

Citrus fruits mostly ripen through winter and into spring, although many types linger on their trees long enough to seem like ...

Photographers capturing earlier than expected blooming of the iconic Joshua trees in the Mojave Desert are being asked to ...

The spiky desert succulents typically blossom beginning in late February. But this season, many started growing flowers up to ...

Roey Yosef’s farm uses high-pressure systems and drip irrigation, an efficient method that delivers water directly to plant ...