In southern California’s Coachella Valley, pale sand dunes sprawl under the desert sun, shifting and re-forming in the wind.

Discover the Mojave Desert's location, unique climate, fascinating geology, and iconic Joshua trees. Explore facts about ...

Step into California’s eerie desert where the ground twists, the sky stretches, and nothing looks like it belongs on this ...

Otherworldly -- that's one way to describe the Mojave Desert and its barren beauty. This unforgiving region is partly located ...

Aeolian bedforms are common on Earth and across the solar system, including on Mars, Venus, Pluto, the Saturn moon Titan, the Neptune moon Triton, and Comet 67P. These geological features, among the ...

A map released Thursday by the U.S. Drought Monitor shows large parts of California are now officially out of an ongoing drought, and other regions are significantly improved.

While housing costs remain stubbornly high for most California residents, a new study shows that renters are staying in their homes longer than almost anywhere else in the country. About 44% of ...

California's inland desert region received just 5 inches of rain per year on average during the middle of the 20th century, making it the driest part of the state.

Shelby Easler and her family were sent into the California desert after Google Maps put them on an off-road detour while driving home from Las Vegas.

And in 1994, the California Desert Protection Act went several steps further to designate 3.5 million acres of the Conservation Area as wilderness, turn Death Valley and Joshua Tree national monuments ...

Covering more than 25 million acres — about a fourth of California — the geologically diverse California Desert Conservation Area includes sand dunes, canyons, dry lakes, 90 mountain ranges, and 65 ...

The California Desert region is incredibly biodiverse. In the Mojave Desert, there are approximately 210 species of plants that are found nowhere else on Earth.