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The Bureau of Land Management was ordered to close down popular off-roading trails in parts of the Mojave in order to protect the imperiled desert tortoise.

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Paleontologists have made an exciting discovery with the uncovering of a 15-million-year-old fish fossil in the Australian ...

By precise numbers, it has reduced the average carbon content in the desert air from 416 parts per million to 413 ppm.

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There’s a hospital, grocery stores, and restaurants where the food is good and the portions are generous. Eagle Lake sits ...