A 3.5-million-acre swath of Mojave Desert, between Ridgecrest and the Morongo Basin, has been named a sentinel landscape, a federally led effort to promote sustainable land-use near military ...

Friends of the Desert Mountains’ Environmental Connections por Vida program stopped at 14 elementary schools in the district this school year, bringing an interactive lesson focused on the local ...

The Mojave Desert Land Trust, a Joshua Tree-based conservation group, said Wednesday that it had been swindled of $325,000 three years ago by a former employee.

Why fertile land is turning to desert. ... Severe land degradation and desertification are impacting the Earth's ability to "support environmental and human wellbeing," said a 2024 UNCCD report.

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The United States Bureau of Land Management approved a new gold mine project near Wickenburg. The project raised environmental concerns regarding water usage, potential groundwater contamination and ...

“It takes a lot of land.” The desert is pressing in from every direction. According to Sbai, the outer edge of the oasis moves inward by more than 300 feet each year.

Vast forests, desert land and even a volcano are among the landscapes included in what's now the largest corridor of federally protected land in the U.S.

In addition to cost savings, construction and demolition debris processors have another incentive to dump on private desert land. The state wants to keep as much material as possible out of landfills.

Environment ; Map Shows How Much U.S. Land May Be Degraded by 2050. Published Jun 17, 2024 at 11:04 ... which shows all other areas of land on the globe suffering the same damage.