The Mojave Desert tortoise has long been considered a threatened species, but in June, California declared it endangered.

Spotting a Mojave Desert tortoise is increasingly difficult in the American Southwest. The tortoises, with their unmistakable ...

Far from being barren wastelands, deserts are biologically rich habitats with a vast array of animals and plants that have ...

Looking for a winter job? The Mojave Desert Preserve has announced a limited number of job openings with the goal of ...

Construction on the first permanent, accessible trails at Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument has begun. The trails ...

A 3.5-million-acre swath of Mojave Desert, between Ridgecrest and the Morongo Basin, has been named a sentinel landscape, a federally led effort to promote sustainable land-use near military ...

The San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance and The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens have reintroduced 70 critically endangered Mojave desert tortoises to their native habitat on Edwards Air Force Base.

The proposed Rough Hat Clark County Solar Project would take up 2,400 acres of public land in the Pahrump Valley. The area is home to the federally protected desert tortoise.

The Joshua trees of Boron, some up to 500 years old, share a complex ecology with the many other flora and fauna found in this small region that will soon no longer find sustenance here, such as ...

There are many springs in the Mojave Desert, but those that became the mainstays generally had consistent, though sometimes meager flows, and they were usually 10 to 30 miles apart.

Roughly 740,000 acres of the Mojave Desert comprise California's newest national monument in Riverside and Imperial counties. Chuckwalla National Monument was established in mid-January by ...

To the editor: Your article describing habitat and wildlife destruction to construct a solar power plant in the Mojave Desert brings to mind the shameful government-subsidized Solyndra episode of ...