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 ...

The study took into account the amount of city area covered by parks, as well as the amount of money and volunteer work invested in them.

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

Tribes that have long pushed for the protection of hundreds of thousands of acres of California ... The region is the ancestral homeland of the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians and other ...

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 ...

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 ...