Biologist Ed LaRue sets up camera traps in California’s Mojave Desert to keep a constant eye on endangered animals and develop strategies to better protect them. The other day, he noticed a pickup ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two desert wildlife crossings will hit the drawing board thanks to a $5.5 million state-funded grant, according to the Mojave ...

Off-road fans heading into California’s Mojave Desert soon might want to double-check their maps. A federal judge has ordered the closure of roughly 2,000 miles (3,200 km) of off-highway vehicle ...

In observance of Earth Day, the Mojave River Watershed Group is co-sponsoring clean-up events in Apple Valley, Hesperia and ...

A federal judge has made 2,200 miles of Western Mojave Desert trails off-limits to off-roading bikers and drivers, in the name of preserving the threatened desert tortoise. The Bureau of Land ...

Although sunlight is one of the cleanest forms of renewable energy available, clearing large swathes of desert habitat to build solar arrays has consequences for the plants and animals it displaces.

Located east of Los Angeles, the Mojave is the largest protected desert in the world. Mojave National Preserve is the rain shadow of the towering pine-covered mountains about 100 miles west. Located ...