The iconic spindly plants are under threat from a variety of factors, including climate change and development, and the California legislature is stepping in to help. What is it? Some think the ...

The blaze was approaching the 2024 Bridge Fire burn scar, which ripped through the Angeles National Forest and threatened ...

9:26 a.m. Aug. 3, 2023: An earlier version of this article misspelled the last name of retired conservation ecologist Cameron Barrows as Barrow. A light rain fell on the Mojave National Preserve, ...

Never been to Joshua Tree National Park? Here's what you're missing, and why you should go as soon as possible.

Climate change is the single greatest threat to the long-term survival of the Joshua tree, a beloved symbol of California’s high desert. But the biggest short-term obstacle is an impasse by state ...

Southern California’s iconic Joshua trees are flowering months ahead of schedule, baffling scientists and raising fears about the future of the species. The Mojave Desert succulents typically bloom ...

A lamb puppet named Judeh reports from the Mojave Desert, where 3,500 Joshua trees are to be cleared for the construction of a large-scale solar farm that will bring power to some 180,000 homes in ...

When the Dome Fire tore through the Mojave Desert in 2020, it reduced 1 million Eastern Joshua trees to blackened skeletons. Scientists expected the underground ecosystem to be equally devastated.

Conservationists have tried for years to protect the Western Joshua tree, a twisty plant strewn across the desert landscape. They sought a threatened-species designation from California that is ...

A massive fire burning through the desert in California and southern Nevada has scorched tens of thousands of acres in a biodiverse national preserve and torched its iconic Joshua trees. The York Fire ...

The Cholla Cactus Garden, located about 12 miles south of the park's North Entrance, is home to one of the few stands of ...