This oak tree has stood in this very spot since long before he or I walked the Earth. It is early winter when MacKenzie, an atmospheric scientist and director of Birmingham University Institute ...

(Stephanie Choo pic) The fukugi tree (“Garcinia subelliptica ... Elsewhere, the grove of common screwpines (“Pandanus utilis”), with their aerial roots at the base of their trunks ...

The area that is now Joshua Tree National Park wasn’t always a desert. During the Great Ice Age, also known as the Pleistocene Epoch, there were rivers and lakes as well as Columbian mammoths ...