Dust and groundwater contaminated with heavy metals and radioactive chemicals pose a health threat that the authorities have ...

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How to save a desert oasis—before it vanishes completely. For centuries, hundreds of millions of people have relied on desert wetlands that are now disappearing.

A 3.5-million-acre swath of Mojave Desert, between Ridgecrest and the Morongo Basin, has been named a sentinel landscape, a federally led effort to promote sustainable land-use near military ...

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Friends of the Desert Mountains’ Environmental Connections por Vida program stopped at 14 elementary schools in the district this school year, bringing an interactive lesson focused on the local ...

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