The desert tortoise, a once-resilient reptile, is a keystone species in the Mojave Desert, where other animals depend for their survival on the burrows it digs. But it is imperiled in California ...

St. George • Environmental groups filed a lawsuit challenging the Northern Corridor highway on Wednesday, two weeks after the federal government reapproved the controversial project through critical ...

Off-roading is now off-limits on routes spanning 1 million acres of the western Mojave Desert after a six-year legal battle over whether adding thousands of miles of new dirt roads would harm the ...

Desert tortoises began displaying behavior that did not align with long-established patterns. Movements, activity timing, and responses to conditions shifted noticeably. Early explanations minimized ...

A federal judge has ordered off-highway vehicle riders to steer clear of more than 2,200 miles of proposed routes through California’s Mojave Desert that’s home to the threatened desert tortoise. In a ...

The American desert, with its vast, seemingly barren landscape, is actually teeming with remarkable wildlife that has adapted to thrive in one of Earth’s most challenging environments. From the ...

In this April 4, 2008 file photo, Marines wait for a desert tortoise to move off the road at the U.S. Marine Corps' Air Ground Combat Center at Twentynine Palms, Calif. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File) (CN ...

MOJAVE MAXINE? This sweet celebrity has the sort of name that lends a headline or magazine cover with instant pizzazz, but here's the twist: She's never going to be followed by the paparazzi, her ...