This video compares the distinct landscapes, climate, and visitor highlights of Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks. From the extremes of Badwater Basin to the iconic Joshua trees and boulder ...

Joshua Tree National Park is at the intersection of the two remaining deserts, the Mojave and the Sonoran. Visitors can see ...

The Joshua trees and the desert dwellers (including the human ones) have a right to exist too. Furthermore, as time goes on, we humans (8 billion of us) may end up missing what else this lovely ...

A silver cholla cactus glows in the late afternoon light at the Mojave Desert Land Trust’s demonstration garden in Joshua Tree. It’s one of 50 native plants available for sale at the land ...

Must-see places in and around Joshua Tree include sites where a rock star met his fateful end, an outdoor museum built by a ...

Unlike California’s forested landscapes, desert plants like Joshua trees aren’t adapted to fire, meaning it’s more difficult for them to recover and resprout post-fire — if they’re able ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) A conglomerate mesa is a refuge for desert ...

The Joshua trees and other plant species burned by the nearly 94,000-acre York Fire are likely to never regrow, said Debra Hughson, the preserve's deputy superintendent, leaving behind a permanent ...

Joshua trees are known for residing in their eponymous national park in southern California, but are also found throughout the Mojave desert, and have become an iconic symbol of the high desert.

Just like Joshua Tree National Park, the state’s iconic, yet fragile, desert trees (they’re technically yucca plants) are “doomed,” according to one longtime scientist studying the species ...

When Roy Richards spotted workers cutting down and shredding Joshua trees for a sprawling solar energy project near his Mojave Desert home last week, he started taking photos. “Once the trees go ...

The gangly, spiky plants that grow in the vital and sensitive Mojave Desert can live more than 150 years. But devastating wildfires have left behind millions of charred trees — actually ...