Even as I urged them to leave, from my home in the Mojave Desert, I was moved by a different compulsion: to get in my car, report to work and rush, via fire engine or helicopter, toward the fires. It ...

For some, Ivanpah now stands as a huge, shiny monument to wasted tax dollars and environmental damage. For others, failures ...

From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a vast alien-like installation of hundreds of thousand of mirrors pointed at three towers, ...

One Redditor shared a stunning photograph of her off-grid yurt in the Mojave Desert, inspiring others to clear a path to ...

CHP Fort Tejon is reminding drivers to be prepared on the roads as Kern County is forecasted to see rain with the possibility ...

A controversial development is underway in the small Mojave Desert town of Boron. Residents feel left in the dust.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission uncovered a cosmic connection between asteroid Bennu and Earth’s Searles Lake. Both contain minerals formed by evaporating salty water, hinting that Bennu’s parent body once ...

One of the world’s most iconic long-distance hiking trails for hiking enthusiasts is the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT). It ...

Searles Lake has long been shaped by shifting water levels, volcanic minerals, and evaporite formation. In 2024, satellites ...

People with hotel industry ties are among buyers and entities that have snapped up 22 parcels within national park boundaries ...

There’s a silver Airstream that gleams in the desert sun like a disco ball, a pink and white polka-dotted number that looks ...

Shutterstock One of the Most Extreme Places in the West Coast Death Valley National Park covers 3.4 million acres in ...