The Mojave desert tortoise is listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. The extent of the plants and animals at risk in the York fire are still under investigation, Willoughby said ...

Mojave yucca is also an important plant for manufacture of soap ... In those days the desert was wetter and the animals included mastodon and sloth with new evidence of an early horse.

Meanwhile, environmentalists continue to blame the Mojave Desert plant for killing thousands of birds and tortoises. The Ivanpah solar power plant formally opened in 2014 on roughly 5 square miles ...

A wildfire burning near the California-Nevada border has ravaged parts of the Mojave National ... forever change the fragile desert ecosystem. Priming crop plants with a microbe sourced from ...

Parks) Millions of acres in the Mojave Desert have been designated as a Sentinel Landscape, meaning more will be done to balance military training with protecting listed plants and animals such as ...

“There’s so much life here,” Asbell says, “but it’s easy to not realize that when you’re in the desert.” Asbell is the director of plant conservation for the Mojave Desert Land Trust ...

Through their interpretations of the Mojave Desert ... worry about the effects of sustained drought on animals and plants in the Mojave Desert. “You’re only really frustrated if you can ...

11 Years After a Celebrated Opening, Massive Solar Plant Faces a Bleak Future in the Mojave Desert LOS ANGELES (AP) — What was once the world's largest solar power plant of its type appears ...