Life in the desert seems impossible to most of us. Yet across the world’s harshest landscapes, remarkable plants not only survive but thrive in conditions that would quickly kill ordinary vegetation. These botanical survivors have developed some of the most ingenious water conservation strategies found anywhere in nature. Understanding how desert plants achieve this extraordinary ...
Imagine walking through the world’s driest desert and discovering plants that have learned to capture water from nothing more than morning mist. In places where not a drop of rain falls for months or even years, extraordinary botanical survivors have developed the most ingenious methods to harvest moisture directly from the air. These remarkable ...
At dawn in the Sonoran heat, a tiny streak of iridescence stabs the air like a spark, then hovers, steady as a heartbeat, over a red chuparosa bloom. The question that keeps ecologists awake is simple and electrifying: how do hummingbirds keep pace with a that can switch from drought to deluge in a week. ...
Suhail Ahmed
Suhail Ahmed
