Chuckwalla National Monument was established by outgoing President Joe Biden as one of his last actions to help restore endangered desert tortoise habitats.

By the mid-'70s, the Japanese mined all the coal and the island was swiftly abandoned and left to the elements. The relatively sudden evacuation of the island gives it a ghostly, frozen-in-time ...

First Independently Developed Jet Breaks the Sound Barrier Over the California Desert A sleek white aircraft became the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier Tuesday ...

where he published the award-winning Earth Island Journal — whose content shifted noticeably toward a focus on desert issues during his tenure. A California resident since the early 1980s, Chris has ...