Nevada's desert landscape is filled with life that is hidden to human eyes. But when conditions are just right, typically ...

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 ...

Water company Cadiz tapped the engineering firm to oversee construction of a massive groundwater bank that will supply ...

But on a warm afternoon in December, 77 of these animals were captured near the town of Alpine and hauled back home to build ...

Today’s Mojave Desert, once an ancient sea ... results in significant variation in temperature, vegetation and wildlife. In July, normally the preserve’s hottest month, the average high ...

Ivanpahs’s location in the sweeping, sun-drenched Mojave Desert may have seemed ideal ... a series of measures to protect and relocate the animals, many environmentalists believed the plant ...

A civilian jet broke the sound barrier for the first time Tuesday while making a historic test flight over the Mojave Desert. The XB-1 aircraft, manufactured by Boom Supersonic, was piloted by ...

At 9:50 p.m. Monday, Feb. 17, a magnitude 3.0 earthquake struck 10 miles north-northeast of Barstow in the Mojave Desert ... A variety of desert adapted wildlife are found here, including the ...

The project has long attracted fierce opposition, however: Conservation groups say pulling water from the aquifer would threaten natural springs and wildlife in the heart of the Mojave Desert ...