A 3.5-million-acre swath of Mojave Desert between Ridgecrest and the Morongo Basin has received a new federal designation that advocates hope will help protect vulnerable wildlife like the Mojave ...

The volcanic explosions in the area now called Hole-in-the-Wall, where the Rings Trail is located, went on for "several ...

Millions of acres of the Mojave Desert, home to five military bases and at least 40 protected species, including the desert tortoise and Joshua trees, will have more protection thanks to a designation ...

Explore the best of Death Valley and Joshua Tree alongside NPCA experts and partners on this exciting journey through the Mojave Desert. These amazing Southern California national parks offer ...

California’s biggest wildfire of the year — burning through delicate Joshua tree forests along the California-Nevada border — is an unusual desert blaze being fueled in part by the rapid growth of ...

"The Country since leaving the Colorado has been a dry rocky sandy Barren desert." – Jedediah Smith, 1826. Early western explorers who ventured into the Mojave Desert, like Jedediah Smith, often ...

Firefighters are working to control a massive blaze that swept through the California desert and into Nevada. A wildfire of this scale is not common in the Mojave Desert landscape, known for its ...

The Mojave National Preserve was known for being home to the world's largest and densest Joshua tree forest. Then in the summer of 2020, a wildfire sparked by lightning torched through more than ...

The York fire burns in an area of the Mojave National Preserve on Saturday. (R. Almendinger / InciWeb / National Park Service) The 70,000-acre wildfire that started in California's Mojave National ...

In the Mojave, humans are reminded of our smallness, our naïveté, our transience. By Meg Bernhard On a frigid March morning in 2022, a friend and I were visiting the Mojave National Preserve in ...