“It’s a public misconception that the desert doesn’t burn, but we’re seeing right here that that’s not case,” said Sierra Willoughby, a supervisory park ranger at Mojave National Preserve.

It’s a brisk day in Johannesburg, a tiny mining town tucked among the Rand Mountains in the Mojave Desert. The landscape is vast and rugged, a mishmash of rock, dirt and creosote bushes ...

Those scenes were reality in Southern California’s vast Mojave Desert. There’s no shortage of harrowing tales about near-death experiences with thirst and desperate battles for survival.

Ready to claim these bragging rights? We got you! The Mojave Desert Lava Tube was formed when volcanic activity caused lava to flow along this part of the world. The top layer of lava cools and ...

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 ...

Kelly Fuhrmann, Acting Superintendent, Mojave National Preserve: It's a very special place in a lot of ways, being a desert ecosystem. The vegetation assemblages are quite diverse, although in a ...

Mojave National Preserve officials are continuing their efforts to protect endangered desert tortoises from vehicles with the installation of dozens of miles of roadside "tortoise fencing" in ...