Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As monsoon rains bring much needed water to Arizona’s deserts, you may notice some of the state’s beloved shell-backed reptiles on ...

Seven years of carefully planned habitat restoration on private land in the Mojave Desert have yielded hope for the persistence of the endangered Amargosa vole. In early August, a photograph from a ...

A federal judge has ordered a sweeping shutdown of off-road vehicle routes in the Mojave Desert, closing roughly 2,200 miles ...

A federal judge has made 2,200 miles of Western Mojave Desert trails off-limits to off-roading bikers and drivers, in the ...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - They are a protected under the federal government’s Endangered Species Act. The Desert Tortoise population is making a gradual comeback after it’s population dropped by as ...

The Bureau of Land Management was ordered to close down popular off-roading trails in parts of the Mojave in order to protect the imperiled desert tortoise.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It is estimated that around 33% of the earth's landscape, or around 57,308,738 square miles of land, are classified as deserts.

This paper describes an interdisciplinary study of the habitat requirements of threatened desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii) on eight 225-ha study plots in a 14 000 ha study area near the southern ...

Although sunlight is one of the cleanest forms of renewable energy available, clearing large swathes of desert habitat to build solar arrays has consequences for the plants and animals it displaces.

“About Habitats: Deserts” by Cathryn Sill, illustrated by John Sill, 2007, Peachtree Publishers, $16.95, hardbound, 41 pages: Before the text even begins, “Deserts” displays a nifty color map ...