Extending from the southeastern US states of Arizona, New Mexico and Texas deep into central Mexico, the Chihuahuan Desert offers a kaleidoscope of textures and colours that shape its unique ...

A newly discovered plant found by a national park volunteer in the Texas desert is a small, fuzzy flower that pokes up ...

As you can see from the climate graph, plants and animals in the desert have to cope with very little water. The climate is very hot. Summer day time temperatures can exceed 40°C. However ...

A new species of sunflower, Ovicula biradiata, has been identified in Big Bend National Park, Texas. This discovery, made by ...

Unsurprisingly, El Paso's hot climate is a result of its location in the Chihuahuan Desert, which extends through parts of western Texas, southern New Mexico and northern Mexico. The Centennial ...

South African oryx (Oryx gazella gazella) were introduced into the Chihuahuan Desert on White Sands Missile Range (WSMR), New Mexico ... R. Malm, and R. A. Earl. 1990. Climate guide, Las Cruces ...

In a remote corner of the Chihuahuan Desert, an unexpected botanical discovery has captured the attention of ... It grows in an extremely limited area of the park, making it vulnerable to climate ...

This part of the Chihuahuan Desert has faced recent severe drought conditions, and the problem is expected to worsen due to climate change. That means woolly devils could qualify as vulnerable and ...

Because gypsum dissolves easily in water, rain would normally wash it away and carry it to the sea. In this part of the Chihuahuan Desert, however, the land forms a basin, trapping the mineral; water ...