Chuckwalla National Monument was established by outgoing President Joe Biden as one of his last actions to help restore ...

Returning to California ... wiping out the desert tortoises and other members of the ecosystem.” The sun was setting, and the Resting Spring Range, which rises east of Shoshone, had lit up ...

California Native Plant Society, Defenders of Wildlife and the Desert Tortoise Council, sued the federal agencies in 2021 over the 2019 West Mojave Route Network Project, which they said had ...

Desert tortoises have lived in the deserts of California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah since the Pleistocene. In the early years of the 20th century, they still thrived within the Southwest's arid ...

What was once the largest solar power plant of its type in the world appears headed for closure just 11 years after opening.

Meanwhile, environmentalists continue to blame the Mojave Desert ... tortoises. The Ivanpah solar power plant formally opened in 2014 on roughly 5 square miles of federal land near the California ...