National park employees have been notified about a possible second round of layoffs; Mojave Desert groups warn of repercussions, impacts on SoCal land.

From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a vast alien-like installation of hundreds of thousand of mirrors pointed at three ...

“The Trump administration’s appalling 11th-hour move will destroy some of the last remaining habitat for threatened Mojave Desert tortoises in Utah and make a mockery of public lands protection.

A civilian jet broke the sound barrier for the first time Tuesday while making a historic test flight over the Mojave Desert. The XB-1 aircraft, manufactured by Boom Supersonic, was piloted by ...

The California Fish and Game Commission has formally recognized the Mojave desert tortoise as endangered ... Colorado River in California, Arizona, Utah and Nevada. They feed on grasses, cacti ...

Desert tortoises have lived in the deserts of California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah since the Pleistocene ... As many as 1,000 tortoises per square mile once inhabited the Mojave. But by the end of ...