In a significant decision that affects off-road vehicle recreation in the western Mojave Desert, a federal judge has prohibited off-road vehicle use in critical habitat for desert tortoises across ...

The desert teaches you humility. Out on Bureau of Land Management land in southern Nevada, there is no hum of electricity, no running water, no cell service to pull you back into the noise of modern ...

What seemed like an ordinary trip through the Mojave Desert quickly turned into something far more mysterious. A hidden cave entrance appeared where nothing should have been, and stepping inside ...

Environmental groups filed a lawsuit against the federal government over its recent reapproval of the Northern Corridor, continuing a decades-long saga over highway through desert tortoise habitat.

The feds and environmental groups reignite a decades-long fight over how much development a conservation area — and the desert tortoise it was created to protect — can withstand as southwest Utah ...

The Washington County Habitat Conservation Plan is seeking public input on a recreation plan for a 7,000-acre reserve.

A new lawsuit by conservation groups challenges the federal reapproval of the proposed 4.5-mile Northern Corridor highway in ...

Grist reports solar farms, like the Gemini project, can enhance biodiversity, supporting rare plants like the threecorner ...

To protect the southwest’s iconic Joshua trees, scientists are tinkering with their genetics and searching for climate havens ...

Record winter rainfall in California ended a drought lasting more than 1,300 days, and may bring Death Valley its first ...

The Mojave Desert near Los Angeles is full of hiking trails and adventure. Here are three trails near L.A. already bursting ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service was included in the lawsuit because the agency authorized the killing, harming or disturbance of protected Mojave Desert tortoises as part of the corridor right of way ...