From afar (or even from just 10 feet away), the patch of land just south of Highway 62 and east of the town of Joshua Tree looks like any other undeveloped parcel of Mojave Desert landscape, dotted ...

Welcome to the Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Art Museum in Joshua Tree, California, where the line between art and dystopian ...

The view from the patio is shifting as Las Vegas residents embracing xeriscaping, after the summer of 2024 left behind ...

Stretching from Joshua Tree to the Grand Canyon to Bears Ears, this corridor forms the largest swath of protected lands in the continental U.S.,” said Theresa Pierno, President and CEO for the ...

The Sahara is often thought of as the driest desert in the world, but there is in fact a desert that is even older and more ...

Early desert photographer Stephen H. Willard's photography captures the beauty of Palm Springs and other areas of the desert Southwest.

Isolated in the middle of the desert or atop a remote outcropping, these settlements appear like surreal visions sitting in ...

This is top of mind for many of us after the summer of 2024 left behind defeated trees ... sustainable landscaping options, one local nursery sells plants that withstand the desert’s challenges.

But around a million years ago, the climate dried up and the trees vanished. The landscape turned to a Mojave-like desert shrub land — an extremely arid place that seemed inhospitable for early ...

The area that is now Joshua Tree National Park wasn’t always a desert. During the Great Ice Age, also known as the Pleistocene Epoch, there were rivers and lakes as well as Columbian mammoths ...

The L.A. Times Features team shares the places that have helped them amid uncertainty, be it a hot spring, cool desert, ...