There's a lot of emptiness in the Mojave Desert, but there's also a huge lot filled with abandoned Volkswagen and Audi cars.

Cell service cuts out not long after you peel off the pavement. It’s a friendly reminder that this is a remote chunk of the Mojave Desert and if your vehicle dies out here—so might you. If you’re ...

A mysterious dirt road stretches nearly 50 miles across California's Mojave Desert between Barstow and Palmdale, but its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An air tanker drops fire retardant over the York fire in the Mojave National Preserve on Saturday. (R. Almendinger / National Park ...

Environmental groups have been butting heads with local residents, off-roaders, and the Bureau of Land Management, the federal agency that manages nearly a third of the western Mojave Desert, since ...

Gambel's Quail makes its home in high, dry parts of the Mojave Desert. But like many bird species, it's struggling against the effects of climate change. Chelsea Hofmeier Birds in southern ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Roughly 740,000 acres of the Mojave Desert comprise California's newest national monument in Riverside and Imperial counties.

In California’s Mojave Desert, a new wellness escape promises something we can all use more of: the sound of silence. Travel + Leisure Senior Editorial Director Nina Ruggiero oversees T+L's ...

Spotting a Mojave Desert tortoise is increasingly difficult in the American Southwest. The tortoises, with their unmistakable domed patterned shells, live in California, parts of Nevada, Arizona and ...

A morphological and molecular study identified Hyalella plutonia and Hyalella keepuikantun as two new eyeless groundwater ...