Desert Life: Plant & Animal Adaptations to Extreme Heat and Water Scarcity. Posted ... the film raises important questions about how these changes may disrupt the fragile balance of desert ecosystems.

In southern California’s Coachella Valley, pale sand dunes sprawl under the desert sun, shifting and re-forming in the wind.

“Plants are the foundation of most ecosystems, so when we protect these plants, we’re protecting everything that depends on them, like desert tortoise, burrowing owls and pollinators.” Five ...

Exploring how people, plants and animals have adapted to the desert biome in the Arabian Peninsula. Suitable for teaching Geography at KS3, GCSE, National 4 and National 5. BBC Teach.

“And a few weeks of that rain just transforms this whole region, animal and plant-wise, into something that is truly amazing and truly unique, in this lushest desert on planet Earth ...

The desert is also home to a host of insect and animal life, including this blister beetle, which constantly darts among the plants. Desert tortoise, the largest land turtle in the US and ...

The Mojave Desert Land Trust is working to scout, catalogue, collect and preserve millions of seeds from 250 species and counting in a race to save an ecosystem.

“There’s so much life here,” Asbell says, “but it’s easy to not realize that when you’re in the desert.” Asbell is the director of plant conservation for the Mojave Desert Land Trust ...

In 2016, Mojave Desert Land Trust officially launched the seed bank project, which has since been described as a “Noah’s Ark” for southern California. Three white refrigerators at MDLT ...