Although sunlight is one of the cleanest forms of renewable energy available, clearing large swathes of desert habitat to ...

The Mojave River began rising in the High Desert after water was released from Silverwood Lake during the recent storm, ...

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 outgoing ...

Dirt will fly when the California Four Wheel Drive Association and Mojave Desert Heritage and Cultural Association host the 2nd Annual East Mojave Trek. The four-day event, beginning April 24, at the ...

Where it rains very little, you learn to be attuned to any sign the weather could turn wet—any sign that relief is imminent.

Mojave Max, the desert tortoise mascot of the Clark County Desert Conservation Program and Southern Nevada’s weather prognosticator, has broken his record for latest emergence for the 2nd time in ...

Spotting a Mojave Desert tortoise is increasingly difficult in the American Southwest. The tortoises, with their unmistakable domed patterned shells, live in California, parts of Nevada, Arizona and ...

Some believe the desert is silent. They picture a vast mute nothing, hot enough to grill a steak on your vehicle’s hood and dry enough to chap your soul. They think of scorched plains, scrubby plants ...