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.

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 ...

BORON, Calif. — A renewable energy company will soon begin clearing thousands of protected Joshua trees just outside this desert town, including many thought to be a century old, to make way for ...

Friends of the Desert Mountains has expanded its focus in recent years from conserving land to include educating young people about the environment. Desert golfer has perfected the art of shooting ...

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.

“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.

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.

Past Loop 101 and deep into the desert foothills of Scottsdale, scattered neighborhoods back up to boulder outcroppings surrounded by saguaros and washes, lit during the day by dazzling rays and ...

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.

Federal plans to open up the desert for massive solar farms has angered environmentalists Bureau of Land Management just revealed an ambitious plan for renewable energy.