The desert also harbors North America's largest prairie dog colony as well as nesting sites and migratory habitats for more than 500 bird species. More than 110 native freshwater fish species ply its ...

One of those problems is fragmentation. Let's say you have a national park in one spot and another large tract of habitat ten kilometres away. It's too hard for many wildlife species to make it across ...

It is now the fifth largest land-based national monument in the mainland U.S. The national monument status offers an alternate future for the southernmost California desert as it grapples with climate ...

A “very clever” bat-eared fox escaped from its habitat at a California zoo — but it may not have gone far, the zoo reported. Keepers at The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens in Palm Desert believe it’s ...

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 ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. An array of mirrors at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating site is shown near Primm, Nev., Aug. 13, 2014 ...

Climate and Temperature When it comes to rattlesnakes, climate is king. These cold-blooded creatures rely heavily on the ...

In its Short-Term Energy Outlook, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) is projecting 26 gigawatts of solar capacity to ...

Billionaire arms-dealing playboy Tony Stark has a life-changing experience in the desert and builds himself ... you might think this is Avengers 3, by the way, but it isn't. Cap's guys are ...

The FWF has transferred the highly sought-after land to the Putnam Land Conservancy (PLC), ensuring it will remain wild ...

The crowd started piling into Gobbler's Knob at 3 a.m. on Sunday, happy to wait more than four hours in freezing cold to ... In Barclay Square, the town's center, people lined up to get an early peek ...

The Mojave Desert Land Trust says funds were allegedly stolen by former staff who oversaw the trust's finances.