For Gila monsters that live in the warming Mojave Desert, relocating to beat the heat may not be so simple. While climate change might create some better habitats, the lizards could be left behind in ...

There's a lot of emptiness in the Mojave Desert, but there's also a huge lot filled with abandoned Volkswagen and Audi cars.

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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 ...

In southern Nevada’s Valley of Fire State Park sandstone arches and sweeping dunes glow under the sun like another world. It ...

The bouncy washboard road leading out to California’s King Clone site probably didn’t exist 11,700 years ago. Why would it? Cars wouldn’t be invented or seen for another 11,550 years (give or take) in ...

The Mojave Desert Preserve is hiring seasonal Biological Science Technicians to assist with desert tortoise conservation. The Mojave desert tortoise was declared endangered in California in 2024 after ...

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 ...

“From June on to November the Mojave Desert lies hot, still, unbearable … sick … where dust devils dance, whirling up into a wide, pale sky” — Mary Austin ...