The dust hurts air quality not only by giving skies a milky haze, but also by aggravating respiratory problems and triggering ...

Southland soaked by historic floods, shaken by 5.1 earthquake 03:54. LOS ANGELES -- Tropical Storm Hilary drenched Southern California from the coast to inland mountains and deserts Sunday evening ...

Tropical Storm Hilary’s historic rains are great news for wildflower lovers — if you’re into shy desert blooms like the arcing spikes of fringed amaranth (Amaranthus fimbriatus), pops of ...

A tropical storm came to the desert, and migrant farmers faced a new danger. Rafael Nuñez, 29, right, and Isabel Ramirez, 23, work to prop up a piece of roofing to try to divert floodwaters from ...

Monday, Aug. 21 Schools. Many school districts in the High Desert have announced there will be no school on Monday, August 21 out of an abundance of caution as Tropical Storm Hilary continues to ...

Crews worked to dig roads, buildings and care home residents out of the mud across a wide swath of Southwestern U.S. desert Monday, as the first tropical storm to hit Southern California in 84 ...

All modes of tropical weather impacts from Hurricane Hilary are expected across California and the Desert Southwest, but the FOX Forecast Center is closely monitoring rainfall rates that could be ...

Crews worked to dig roads, buildings and care home residents out of the mud across a wide swath of Southwestern U.S. desert Monday, after a tropical storm to hit Southern California.

The tropical zone is the portion of Earth's surface located between the Tropic of Cancer at 23.5 degrees north latitude and the Tropic of Capricorn at 23.5 degrees south ... Expanding deserts.

Tropical storms have hit desert The worst — Flood of 1983 — killed 13. By Tom Beal ARIZONA DAILY STAR Sep 18, 2008 Sep 18, 2008; 1 of 7 ...

There is a trend of growing plants that take a lot of care to flourish in the desert. These include tropical or subtropical plants. Some of these plants grow better in the desert than others.