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

In 1976, Congress designated the 25-million-acre region of desert stretching from the Mexican border north to Death Valley and the eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains as the California Desert Conservation ...

California's beautiful deserts—the Mojave Desert, the Colorado Desert ... scorching at 134°F in the region in July 1913. Its soaring temperatures is why winter is probably the best time ...

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

Officials at The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens say the idea for World Desert Day began when they realized that unlike World ...

An iconic Southern California national park was hit with an unprecedented snowstorm earlier this week.

Wildfires in Southern California have prompted major discussions about water in the state. Here's an overview of where water ...

who have lived in the desert regions of Southern California, including the Coachella Valley near Joshua Tree, for thousands of years. The monument’s name comes from the stocky Chuckwalla lizards ...

Those were the issues facing the first Robert Trent Jones Jr. course ever opened in California’s Coachella ... In news first reported by the Palm Springs Desert Sun, the public Desert Dunes ...

Deserts are part of a wider class of regions called drylands ... with fast-growing grasses. Many desert plants can live for hundreds of years. But in California, the iconic Joshua tree—the ...