The Chihuahuan Desert is home to almost a quarter of the 1,500 cactus species known to science, and a booming desert landscaping trend, combined with poor regulation of legal plant harvesting, is ...

Little rain falls in the Chihuahuan, but the Rio Grande River - known as the Rio Bravo in Mexico - flows through the desert, providing a lifeline for all these animal and plants species, and the ...

And on all sides, the air is alive with the songs of desert birds. The deserts of the Southwest provide excellent birding.