Discover the Mojave Desert's location, unique climate, fascinating geology, and iconic Joshua trees. Explore facts about ...

The Mojave Desert is a "rain shadow" desert. The reason being the Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains to the northwest and the San Gabriel and San Bernardino Mountains to the south of us.

The largest protected desert in the world is located at the Mojave National Preserve, conveniently located between two ...

Bird communities in the Mojave Desert straddling the California/Nevada border have collapsed over the past 100 years, most likely because of lower rainfall due to climate change, according to a ...

Barstow, located in the Mojave Desert, receives on average only four inches of rain a year, with measurable precipitation on fewer than 25 days a year.

The last time residents of the Shore needed an umbrella, President Joe Biden was still running for a second term and the Yankees, well they were looking like World Series Champions. It was so long ...

High Desert rain this week comes just in time for spring bloom season. Here are the top places to photograph spring wildflowers in Southern California.

The sun sets on the Mojave National Preserve in Kelso, California, in early February. There is water under the desert, and whether to tap it on a commercial scale is a crucial debate in California.

Disturbing a desert tortoise in its native habitat is not only risky for the tortoise, it's illegal, state officials say.

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 ...

In southern California’s Coachella Valley, pale sand dunes sprawl under the desert sun, shifting and re-forming in the wind.

The sun sets on the Mojave National Preserve in Kelso, Calif., in early February. There is water under the desert, and whether to tap it on a commercial scale is a crucial debate in California.