Get away from it all and enjoy easy hikes, nature, and history in an unexpected place: the Desert National Wildlife Refuge ...

2. A desert tortoise hatchling at the Tortoise Research and Captive Rearing Site, where vulnerable tortoises are raised inside the vast Marine Corps base. 3.

This left a gap in the fossil record, but Petrified Forest National Park didn’t get its name for nothing: The volcanic ash that burst from California’s Mojave Desert ended up in northeast Arizona’s ...

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 ...