Even in Los Angeles, a city dissected by highways and freeways and with busy ports and train lines, there are still places ...

Aug. 13, 2014. (AP Photo/John Locher, File) An endangered desert tortoise sits in the middle of a road at the proposed location of three BrightSource Energy solar-energy generation complexes in the ...

Meanwhile, environmentalists continue to blame the Mojave Desert plant for killing thousands of birds and tortoises. The Ivanpah solar power plant formally opened in 2014 on roughly 5 square miles ...

the threatened desert tortoise. And while developers take steps to find them new places to live, sometimes the tortoises don’t want to leave. “When you take them and move them 10 miles away ...

Over 20,000 tortoises have been rescued from illegal wildlife poaching by the U.S.-based nongovernmental organization Turtle Survival Alliance. The TSA's Androy Tortoise Conservation Center, based in ...

Besides saguaros, these fires also kill other iconic but slow-moving species, including desert tortoises and Gila monsters. And thanks to climate change, the fire season has also grown longer. Unlike ...

Redditor u/MZEEN1367 made a post called “I would call this The Legs,” where he shared a Minecraft seed and the location of a desert pyramid. What's so special about this pyramid? It had ...

A community in southern Madagascar has pulled together to save thousands of critically endangered tortoises swept away from their sanctuary and left swimming for their lives in floods this month ...

Dar es Salaam. A total of 116 baby tortoises that were smuggled by a Ukrainian national, Orga Kryshtopa in 2023, have been returned to Tanzania as evidence against their smuggler. More than two years ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — A community in southern Madagascar has pulled together to save thousands of critically endangered tortoises swept away from their sanctuary and left swimming for their ...