California’s biggest wildfire of the year — burning through delicate Joshua tree forests along the California-Nevada border — is an unusual desert blaze being fueled in part by the rapid growth of ...

Roughly 740,000 acres of the Mojave Desert comprise California's newest national monument in Riverside and Imperial counties. Chuckwalla National Monument was established in mid-January by outgoing ...

If you're looking for a less crowded spot in California's Mojave Desert, you can head to this designated wilderness area and ...

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A massive fire burning through the desert in California and southern Nevada has scorched tens of thousands of acres in a biodiverse national preserve and torched its iconic Joshua trees. The York Fire ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Trona, a town in California's Mojave Desert, is at risk of being left ...

The boneyard is easy to spot in the arid outskirts of Mojave, a 10-block town in a corner of the southern California desert. Several rows of dormant aircraft bake in the yellow basin, kept behind a ...

An iconic Southern California desert dweller is now formally recognized by the State of California as endangered. On Thursday, the California Fish and Game Commission unanimously approved designating ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An air tanker drops fire retardant over the York fire in the Mojave National Preserve on Saturday. (R. Almendinger / National Park ...

An air tanker drops fire retardant over the York fire in the Mojave National Preserve on Saturday. (R. Almendinger / National Park Service) California's biggest wildfire of the year — burning through ...