Located near both Lake Mead and the Grand Canyon, this Arizona community is an excellent place for outdoor adventures and for viewing the iconic Joshua tree.

Petrified Forest National Park is the only national park in the U.S. with a section of old Route 66. The park is also home to a "rainbow" forest, which has colorful tree fossils that are more than 200 ...

Trees don’t get a lot of love. Beyond Arbor Day, there’s little in the way of formal celebrations of their existence, even though it’s impossible to imagine life without them. That’s certainly true ...

They say every picture tells a thousand stories. And this is a story that went viral a few weeks ago when Basin and Range Watch, a desert environmental advocacy group, tweeted out an image of a map ...

China's active forest expansion has continued at pace amid a long-running push that began half a century ago. Its Three-North Shelterbelt Program started in 1978 and is now also known as the “Green ...

China is attempting one of the most ambitious climate and land restoration projects on Earth, turning a swath of its arid ...

Study area and field photos. (A) Map of the study area showing the land use types and distribution of the ground survey transects (indicated by red lines). (B to D) Photographs of sampling sites ...

NEW YORK -- It's a tough time to be a tree. For this Earth Day, National Geographic has focused its lens on humanity's relationship with the world's 3 trillion trees and 10 billion acres of forest, ...

It’s been a while since we’ve had such an outpouring for something that doesn’t have to do with Donald Trump: Dozens of readers wrote letters to the editor expressing dismay over the construction of a ...

Environment minister Diana Buzoianu announced that the ministry she leads has launched the procedures for a feasibility study ...

Colorado River and the Grand Canyon in Meadview, Arizona - Mcarlin15/Shutterstock If you're fascinated by the twisting, spiky silhouettes of the slow-growing Joshua tree — technically not a tree at ...