Soon I’ll trek into the Mojave Desert, once again chasing cactus colors: strawberry hedgehog cactus on spiky gray columns, pale yellow pencil cholla flowers at sunset. I’ll return in May to see ...

Seeing biodiverse ecosystem, desert art, sculptures and quirky man-made architecture are some things to do in Joshua Tree ...

Roughly 740,000 acres of the Mojave Desert comprise California's newest national monument in Riverside and Imperial counties. Chuckwalla National Monument was established in mid-January by outgoing ...

The Colorado Desert is hotter and drier than the western section of the park that lies in the southern part of the Mojave Desert. Joshua Tree National Park offers more than we can describe here, but ...

A Cactus Mouse sticks its head out of a rock crevice. Use of these kinds of microhabitats during the day buffered small mammals from exposure to climate change and resulted in community stability over ...

Following record winter rains, colorful poppies, yuccas and other wildflowers are about to explode across California's desert wilderness areas east of Los Angeles and San Diego. (Photo by George ...

As the legend goes, it was 19th-century Mormon settlers who gave the Joshua tree its name, inspired by the plant’s bent and clubbed branches, which recall the biblical Joshua raising his arms in ...