Deep in California's Mojave Desert lies a remote road stretching nearly 50 miles across some of the most isolated terrain in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Roughly 740,000 acres of the Mojave Desert comprise California's newest national monument in Riverside and Imperial counties.

While the Dome Fire wiped out more than a million Joshua trees in the Mojave Desert, the soil fungi they depend on largely ...

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 ...

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 ...

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An iconic Southern California desert dweller is now formally recognized by the State of California as endangered. On Thursday, the California Fish and Game Commission unanimously approved designating ...

The boneyard is easy to spot in the arid outskirts of Mojave, a 10-block town in a corner of the southern California desert. Several rows of dormant aircraft bake in the yellow basin, kept behind a ...

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 ...

An air tanker drops fire retardant over the York fire in the Mojave National Preserve on Saturday. (R. Almendinger / National Park Service) California's biggest wildfire of the year — burning through ...