The monument also serves to preserve the area's incredibly biodiverse land, nearly two-thirds of which is critical habitat for the endangered Mojave Desert tortoise and the desert pupfish. The new ...

The monument also serves to preserve the area's incredibly biodiverse land, nearly two-thirds of which is critical habitat for the endangered Mojave Desert tortoise and the desert pupfish.

“The Western Mojave’s desert tortoises are sliding toward extinction, so it’s long past time for the Bureau of Land ...

A once-celebrated solar power plant in the Mojave Desert is now facing closure, just 11 years after its grand opening ...

Aug. 13, 2014. (AP Photo/John Locher, File) An endangered desert tortoise sits in the middle of a road at the proposed location of three BrightSource Energy solar-energy generation complexes in the ...

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A solar project 38 miles west of Las Vegas was approved on Thursday despite environmental conflicts with the threatened Mojave desert tortoise. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) ...

As part of a planned 2,400-acre solar project southwest of Pahrump, developer Candela Renewables will temporarily relocate 114 adult desert tortoises — a species, listed as threatened under the ...

LOS ANGELES, California: A once-celebrated solar power plant in the Mojave Desert is now facing closure ... while conservationists opposed its construction due to threats to desert tortoises and rare ...

Environmentalists from the Western Watersheds Project organization were against construction of the plant due to its impact on desert tortoise. Environmental groups are advocating for teh cancellation ...