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Lichen from the Mojave Desert has stunned scientists by surviving months of lethal UVC radiation, suggesting life could exist ...
As firefighters battle a massive wildfire in the eastern Mojave Desert, national park officials and ecologists are preparing for habitat losses that are likely to alter the landscape forever ...
S oon 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 ...
On the arid western edge of the Mojave, where the desert floor rises to meet the San Bernardino Mountains, sits the 306-acre Burns Piñon Ridge Reserve. We venture out in the morning with beating ...
The Mojave desert has a song all its own – if you take the time to listen Kelso is one of just seven sand dunes in North America known to 'sing,' and one of the most sonorous.
Amboy, population 0 — a Mojave Desert ghost town and Americana icon fights to survive. ... “One of the best memories I have is being out here at sunset with Cindy Crawford,” Large said.
The world's largest Joshua tree forest has deep, spiritual significance to the Indigenous tribes that have considered the ...
In the low desert there is rarely a plant over chest high — the wind blows the sand and grit away before things can be buried. There is no topsoil, nothing is covered, shrouded by trees, logs, moss, ...
The site is open to the public every day, and it's recommended to visit in the evening hours, especially around sunset. The local roads leading to Desert Lighthouse are rugged, and all-wheel drive ...
There is a blinding beacon of light at the top of a tower in the middle of the Mojave Desert. It’s a solar power facility called Ivanpah. It’s been supplying enough juice to power 140,000 ...
Seven years of carefully planned habitat restoration on private land in the Mojave Desert have yielded hope for the persistence of the endangered Amargosa vole. ... This landscape shows the Amargosa ...
The Mojave desert has a song all its own – if you take the time to listen Kelso is one of just seven sand dunes in North America known to 'sing,' and one of the most sonorous.