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 ...

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

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

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

Artist Charles Gaines doesn't want to tell you what to think; he wants his work to inspire viewers to think for themselves.

Dead Vlei, a white clay pan situated near the famous salt pan of Sossusvlei, is in fact the world’s oldest desert. Located 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.

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 ...

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 ...