This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Guest Commentary written by Julia Sizek Julia Sizek is an anthropologist whose research focuses on conflict over ...

A federal judge has prohibited off-road vehicle use in critical habitat for desert tortoises in California’s western Mojave ...

Environmental groups filed a lawsuit against the federal government over its recent reapproval of the Northern Corridor, continuing a decades-long saga over highway through desert tortoise habitat.

Google Maps labels this stretch of the Mojave Desert as a rattlesnake habitat. But no official records, government databases, or maps recognize the name. What starts as a navigation oddity quickly ...