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

A new review highlights how poor solar farm design can harm wildlife and how smarter layouts can reduce the risk to animals.

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Welcome to Red Rock Canyon State Park. Tucked away in Cantil, California, where the Mojave Desert meets the southernmost tip of the Sierra Nevada range, this geological wonderland looks like someone ...

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

The five-lined skink is the only native New Jersey lizard that is found throughout the state.

After cementing himself in both fall and spring as one of the top distance runners in Nevada high school track history, Desert Oasis senior Kenan Dagge has been named Gatorade's Nevada Track ...

A Tohono O'odham family integrates Catholic and Native beliefs in the Arizona desert The history of encounters between Catholicism and Native spirituality has often been marred by violence and ...

While a drier and hotter landscape puts many wildlife at risk, roadrunners can take advantage of a warming world thanks to number of adaptive traits. For one, they’re able to obtain water from their ...

Jeremy tells us that Montana has ten native snake species and six native lizard species. All of them are important elements to the health of our ecosystem. But not all of Jeremy's charges are native.

Before we leave our discussion of the joys of summer, tribute should be paid to that miracle of climatic adaptation, the Sonoran Desert Stick Lizard.

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — The history of encounters between Catholicism and Native spirituality has often been marred by violence and oppression. But many members of the Tohono O’odham Nation hold ...