Tumbleweeds come in the midst of a perfect storm of severe drought, fields with no cover crop, and unusually high winds. They have a hard time where the native grasses are flourishing. (Flickr/ Brad ...

Imagine you’re on the edge of the Sahara Desert, trying to research the problem of desertification–the spread of new deserts onto farmland and into communities. You need data, but you’re facing ...

A journalist in Washington is going viral after sharing a video of his experience getting stuck inside a “tumbleweed tornado.” Matt M. McKnight, a reporter for the nonprofit news site Crosscut, ...

Tumbleweed looks harmless in films, rolling across deserts like scenery, rather than something dangerous. In reality, it has ...

The highway was closed for 10 hours as officials worked through New Year's Eve to free the drivers from their trapped vehicles Multiple drivers in Washington state spent New Year’s Eve on a highway, ...

Tumbleweeds in Sacramento in 2011. Far from dusty ghost town relics, a new invasive species of tumbleweed studied by UC Riverside researchers is here to stay. Lezlie Sterling Sacramento Bee file ...

Conjure up the lonesome sound of a harmonica in a dusty Western town where gunmen with jingling spurs reach for their six-shooters at high noon. The scene would be incomplete without a few tumbleweeds ...

The gnarled icon of the Old West — ominously featured in movies as gunslingers square off on dusty streets and townsfolk shake behind curtained windows — rolled in over the weekend and kept rolling ...