The project is crucial for conserving the Mojave desert tortoise, a threatened species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, and will also benefit other desert wildlife such as coyotes ...

What was once the largest solar power plant of its type in the world appears headed for closure just 11 years after opening.

Amid the woozy desert haze springs an incongruous streak of blue. Lake Mead is the most mirage-like thing I’ve ever seen that ...

Chuckwalla National Monument was established by outgoing President Joe Biden as one of his last actions to help restore ...

Many area residents know Mojave Max from his annual emergence contest, where elementary school students participate in the Punxsutawney Phil-esque tradition of guessing when the desert tortoise ...

The project hopes to reduce vehicle collisions with wildlife and protect the Mojave desert tortoise ... This will go toward the Coyote Springs Wildlife Crossings, which will go along U.S. 93 ...

Meanwhile, environmentalists continue to blame the Mojave Desert plant for killing thousands of birds and tortoises. The Ivanpah solar power plant formally opened in 2014 on roughly 5 square miles ...