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 as the California Desert Conservation ...

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 ...

Up close, the stoic giants in the desert are even bigger than they seem from the highway. Including the stem and blade, the tallest machines reach about 500 feet — nearly twice the height of the ...