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Pine trees are much more than symbols of Christmas and sources of timber. They serve up a smorgasbord for many wild animals and insects. Who dines on pines in the Chihuahuan Desert region?

Science confirms what visitors intuit: Big Bend National Park is a singular place. At 1,200 square miles, it's the largest protected Chihuahuan Desert…

The central reality of climate change – that gases from the burning of fossil fuels are creating a “greenhouse effect,” warming the planet – has been…

Desert animals have adapted to surviving with little or no water during our dry winter and spring. How do they do it?

These tiny crustaceans come to life for just a short while during our rainy season, but their eggs can wait decades to hatch and ride the wind for hundreds of miles.

In the West Texas countryside on a summer day, you're apt to glimpse one racing across the ground, or basking in the sun. If you're a “desert rat”…

Their social dynamics are intricate, and their legacy on the planet dates back some 150 million years. Ants can go unnoticed – underfoot as they are – but…

Winter brings hordes of these handsome birds to our region, where they’ll throng our junipers and devour every berry they can find. What makes these winter wanderers unique?

“If one is inclined to wonder at first how so many came to be in the loneliest land that ever came out of God's hands, one does not wonder so much after…

The Guadalupe Mountains are seductive for their wooded canyons and high forests. But they're as notable for what's hidden beneath and within them as they…