When Roy Richards spotted workers cutting down and shredding Joshua trees for a sprawling solar energy project near his ...

One conservationist calls the Joshua tree “a symbol of our utter failure as a society to address climate change.” The plant’s loss could mean the collapse of the Mojave’s high-desert ...

Here are the morning's top stories for Wednesday, April 9th, 2025: California is aiming to make the entirety of its electricity production zero-carbon by 2045. One of the key areas that state leaders ...

With their twisted stalks and otherworldly outlines, Joshua trees look straight out of an alien landscape or a Dr. Seuss book. But lucky for us, these amazing icons of California’s Mojave Desert are ...

Joshua trees are important for the entire desert ... They’re culturally prominent as a symbol of the Mojave Desert, the ...

“The California Endangered Species Act may be the only hope for saving these iconic symbols of the Mojave Desert,” said Brendan Cummings, the Center’s conservation director and a Joshua Tree resident.

the act determined the fate of 9.6 million acres of Southern California desert, establishing 69 new wilderness areas, expanding Joshua Tree and Death Valley national monuments and “upgrading” them to ...

Art is often shaped by place, and nowhere is that more true than in California’s Hi-Desert, where vast landscapes and open ...

The higher, slightly cooler Mojave Desert offers dazzling vistas of Joshua trees and yucca. The vast park also contains spectacularly sculpted formations of a type of rock known as monzogranite and is ...