The city of Los Angeles brought ... In 1976, Congress designated the 25-million-acre region of desert stretching from the Mexican border north to Death Valley and the eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains ...

Yet more than one billion people, one-sixth of the Earth's population, actually live in desert regions ... can live for hundreds of years. But in California, the iconic Joshua tree—the oldest ...

While most of us might associate California’s Palm Springs with hedonistic pool parties and a raft of celebrities, the desert ...

Covering more than 25 million acres — about a fourth of California — the geologically diverse California Desert Conservation Area includes sand dunes, canyons, dry lakes, 90 mountain ranges, and 65 ...