It is estimated that around 33% of the earth’s landscape, or around 57,308,738 square miles of land, are classified as ...

Although sunlight is one of the cleanest forms of renewable energy available, clearing large swathes of desert habitat to ...

Texas is home to more than 100 snake species, including the western diamondback rattlesnake, which was recently documented ...

Every time I visit the ranch, I’m reminded of how few places there are in the state of Utah where one could go and experience ...

In the U.S., there are roughly thirty species of venomous snakes, most of them rattlesnakes. Most people will never have a serious problem with any of them, but some species have a mix of strong venom ...

But up on a hillside above Hinkley is a bright-white vertical beam of light, seemingly in the middle of nowhere and surrounded by pitch-black darkness. The unexpected beacon in the Mojave Desert is “a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Mojave River began rising in the High Desert after water was released from Silverwood Lake during recent storm activity in the ...

Death Valley’s wildlife beats the odds in a place defined by extremes. The hottest, driest, and lowest landscape in the contiguous United States is home to more than 400 animal species, from desert ...

His poems bridge the gap between nature’s wild expanse and the private space of one’s imagination. Dead Joshua trees in the Mojave Desert east of Baker, CA, 2022. Forrest Gander is on good terms with ...

While the Mojave Desert's sunbaked vistas are sure to present visitors with all manner of surprises, there may be one sight in the Mojave that's a bit more surprising than any windblown dune or ...

The road to Mitchell Caverns was paved but rough, and I slowed my Prius to a crawl to avoid constant giant potholes and washouts. Luckily, I was the only car on Essex Road that Saturday morning. It ...