For the past 15 years, Philip Rundel has been developing this book through his long-term relationship and travels in deserts of the Southwestern United States, northern Chile and southern Africa. His ...

That is, put up the $4.2 million asking price for this nature-inspired desert home in California’s Pioneertown — and live in a real-life community built in a former Western movie set, one that was ...

Produced by the Desert Biennial, a 501(c)3 charitable organization and marking its fourth odd year in action, Desert X is now open to the public in California’s Coachella Valley. Having opened on ...

The carmakers have doubled down on their California facilities.

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 ...

Come springtime in Southern California, if you're craving your shot of colorful blooms but don't want to drive hours for a dud of a bare hill, there's the Theodore Payne wildflower hotline, the ...

Roughly 740,000 acres of the Mojave Desert comprise California's newest national monument in Riverside and Imperial counties. Chuckwalla National Monument was established in mid-January by outgoing ...

Perfect, peeling waves are coming to Palm Desert's new surf park in summer 2026, delivering 1,000 waves per hour for ...

A massive fire burning through the desert in California and southern Nevada has scorched tens of thousands of acres in a biodiverse national preserve and torched its iconic Joshua trees. The York Fire ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A federal judge ordered the Bureau of Land Management to close off-road vehicle trails that cut through tortoise ...

Some of the Southwest’s most iconic desert trees are running for their lives in what could be a grim harbinger for more temperate ecosystems across the West. A study in Functional Ecology offers ...