With this in mind, think small when choosing your plants. “Desert-adaptive plants are usually plants with small leaves. They do not sunburn as badly as plants with larger leaves, which absorb ...

Joe Davidson, the owner of Cactus Joe’s, a nursery located off Blue Diamond Road in the southwest Las Vegas valley, has been creating an oasis for desert plants and wildlife for decades.

Las Vegas has smashed several heat records already this summer, including its hottest day in recorded history on July 7, when the temperature reached 120 degrees Fahrenheit. A record streak of ...

But interestingly enough, some of the desert plants from other desert climates, they're even having a hard time with it.” This summer has baked the Las Vegas valley and its botanical inhabitants.

Speckled across Las Vegas’ Historic Westside are rotting trees without leaves, standing alone and dying. “You see how that ...

They focused on promoting cash rebates to help customers rip out lawns and put in landscaping with desert plants. In 2003, the Las Vegas area’s consumption of Colorado River water shrank more ...

Climate change shapes where and how we live. That's why NPR is dedicating a week to stories about solutions for building and living on a hotter planet. Trees in the desert are like oxygen at high ...

Las Vegas has smashed several heat records already this summer, including its hottest day in recorded history on July 7, when the temperature reached 120 degrees Fahrenheit. A record streak of ...