But instead, a large number of environmentalist groups are upset with the plan, claiming that it will utterly destroy fragile desert ecosystems in the process. In theory, BLM's proposal will help ...

But when the 8,000-page plan was finally released, its proposals prompted as much criticism as they did relief. Local conservation groups have blasted the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan ...

A foundation announced the groundbreaking for the Joshua Tree Art Museum, but public records reveal a more complicated picture.

There are verdant patches in the far corner of the barren Western Desert and more in the northern Sinai Peninsula. And then there is the centerpiece: a vast stretch of fertile land in a now arid ...

Years of heated public debate had oil companies squaring off with environmentalists over drilling rights on 3.6 million acres ...

Egypt wants the development to help increase the value of state assets and boost land prices through "non-traditional, innovative ideas," Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said.

After nearly four years of residence at Area 15, Pikai the desert tortoise sculpture will now call the Las Vegas Natural ...

Southern New Mexico residents joined the congressional delegation and many others in opposing a Donald Trump administration ...

Part of a massive agricultural and urban development scheme, the project aims to reclaim 2.5 million acres of desert for farming.