Gai Gherardi, cofounder and designing creative director of L.A. Eyeworks, died Sunday following a brief illness due to ...

Robinson, a Sonoran desert tortoise, has become a favorite among Arizona Game and Fish Department staff. Known for his ...

Desert tortoises have lived in the deserts of California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah since the Pleistocene. In the early years of the 20th century, they still thrived within the Southwest's arid ...

the Mojave Desert tortoise. The story that changed my perspective began with this alarming statistic: ravens are responsible for about 44% of annual desert tortoise deaths. These intelligent birds ...

Hello, dear neighbors. Can you believe it? It’s practically Spring, and time for deep house-cleanings, yard tending, and ...

Many area residents know Mojave Max from his annual emergence contest, where elementary school students participate in the Punxsutawney Phil-esque tradition of guessing when the desert tortoise ...

Let nature be your guide as you immerse in the beauty of our desert wilds. Here are six places to enjoy the outdoors.

Mojave Max, a desert tortoise mascot for the Clark County Desert Conservation Program, is Las Vegas’ Punxsutawney Phil equivalent. Every year, elementary students guess when the famous reptile ...

Just before President Biden left office, he designated two swaths of land in California as monuments. Chuckwalla National Monument is among them but conservationists worry about its future under the ...

Desert tortoises are roaming a 15 MW community solar farm owned by the Valley Electric Association in Nevada thanks to fence openings made by Bombard Renewable Energy.

a part of the Habitat Conservation Plan designed to protect endangered desert tortoises. At the time, the federal government ruled that cattle grazing posed a threat to the tortoise population.