Deep in the heart of the Mojave Desert lies Amboy, California, perhaps the most iconic ghost town on all of Historic Route 66 ...

The desert tortoise, a once-resilient reptile, is a keystone species in the Mojave Desert, where other animals depend for their survival on the burrows it digs. But it is imperiled in California ...

Image courtesy of Jean Jacques While Las Vegas is technically located in the northern stretch of the Mojave Desert, few people think about it as a desert escape. Instead, it's viewed as a mecca for ...

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.

A 3.5-million-acre swath of Mojave Desert between Ridgecrest and the Morongo Basin has received a new federal designation that advocates hope will help protect vulnerable wildlife like the Mojave ...

MOJAVE DESERT — The desert tortoise, a once-resilient reptile, is a keystone species in the Mojave Desert, where other animals depend for their survival on the burrows it digs. But it is imperiled in ...