Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This article originally appeared on My Utah Parks While the deserts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah may seem barren at first ...

For many desert-goers, “tiptoe through the crypto” is a familiar mantra. But some people headed to the canyon country for their first time may be unaware of the damage they could inflict on the ...

Biological soil crusts, known as biocrusts, are lichens, algae, mosses, fungi, and cyanobacteria common on the soil surface.[i]They are critical to arid ecosystems, where they help to reduce soil ...

Biocrust in Utah Nihonjoe via Wikipedia under CC By-SA 3.0 Under the dry, piercing heat of the Utah sun, Sasha Reed is growing plots of plants—and bacteria, lichen and fungi, too. But Reed is no ...