Videos and photos of Mema, the jaguar cub recently born at The Living Desert, playing or splashing in some water are popular on the Internet and are sure to boost zoo attendance. Mema is one of about ...

Landmark initiative aims to transform human behavior to protect wildlife and wild places, the nation's first center dedicated to behavior change in conservation. This initiative addresses a pressing ...

Following more than three decades of declining numbers, the Mojave desert tortoise has been officially declared an endangered species in California. The California Fish and Game Commission voted ...

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For four decades, a stretch of Nevada desert was synonymous with nuclear firepower. Between 1951 and 1992, the U.S.

Bird populations in the Mojave are plummeting for lack of water, in an imbalance driven by climate change. A new study from UC Berkeley finds shrinking rainfall has led to the loss of more than 40 ...

California Endangered Species Status Sought for Declining Desert Thrashers SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the California Fish and Game Commission today to protect ...

The annual fall count of an extremely rare fish species that lives in a single Mojave Desert cavern found the highest number in 19 years, the National Park Service said. Scientists counted 263 Devils ...

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — Joshua trees and creosote brush poke up through the rocky earth of the Mojave Desert on an early spring afternoon. Mount Baldy towers in the distance, its snowcapped ...

Throughout the history of the West, human actions have often rushed the desert — and their actions backfired. In the 1920s, the Colorado River Compact notoriously overallocated water still used today ...

Captive-bred scimitar-horned oryx are successfully reintroduced into the Sahara Desert, restoring ecosystems and showing ...

Renewable energy corporations have launched an eleventh-hour campaign to derail a petition seeking endangered species protection for Joshua trees, saying it could hinder development of the solar and ...