Many of the features at Petrified Forest are on a scale best appreciated by leaving the car. Plan enough time to walk among the fossil logs and Painted Desert badlands. For a half-day visit ...

Explore the rugged terrain and rare plants at one of Arizona's newest and barely visited national monuments, a serene cactus forest in the middle of the desert.

The AZ Caddie and Leadership Academy has enjoyed a successful sophomore season. The AZCLA is now under the umbrella of the ...

And that rotation is largely responsible for the distribution of every desert, forest, and swamp on the planet. So, let's do a little experiment. Let's say we reverse Earth's rotation. What then?

The Petrified Forest and Painted Desert are uniquely Arizona road trip destinations. Here's why it's worth the drive and what ...

the desert cloud forest. These mountains are crucial to the existence of the forest, acting as a barrier that captures moisture-laden clouds from the Indian Ocean during the monsoon season ...

Large wildfires in the desert were once rare. Now experts worry that invasive plants and a changing fire cycle are putting our saguaros and our homes in danger.

If there’s any plant that symbolizes the Mojave Desert, it is probably the Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia). This unmistakable ...

Now ecologists are planting saplings in the Aralkum Desert to bring trees to where water once lapped.When Maria Zadneprovskaya first saw the Aral Sea in 2021, she was overcome by a raw ...

Jordan’s Sahara Forest project (SFP), which has been running since December 2012 with the aim of transforming desert spaces into vegetated areas, was inaugurated on September 7 by the Prince of ...

Today’s lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Phoenix, says the Forest Service ignored its own concerns that the animals are damaging the area and can’t survive in the high desert and riparian ...

The Petrified Forest National Park highlights the prehistoric ... wood while basking in the surreal landscape of the Painted Desert. World Atlas, a geography website, compiled a list of the ...