“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.

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.

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 ...

Inside a Mojave aster flower, a tiny bee is fast asleep. At night, the pale lavender petals close, providing a safe resting place. In the morning, as birdsong rings out across the desert ...

MOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE ... species usually isn’t able to make a comeback naturally after a wildfire. The desert hasn’t adapted to fires; such blazes are rare because there are few ignition ...

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 ...

EL MIRAGE, Calif. — Deputies found the bodies of six people at a remote dirt crossroads in the Mojave Desert, a scene described as so grisly that Southern California TV stations blurred some of ...

The snake never appeared, and by the next morning we were ready to leave the Mojave as anonymously as possible. But the desert has its own rules. When the clerk at the Bun Boy took my key back ...