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This Robot Tortoise Fights Back Against Predators
In the Mojave Desert, ravens are threatening tortoise populations, pushing conservationists to find an innovative solution. Enter the robotic tortoise—designed to scare off predators and reshape their ...
From the desert to the sea to all of Southern California, the ground keeps shaking in the Golden State, this time in Barstow.
From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a vast alien-like installation of hundreds of thousand of mirrors pointed at three towers, ...
As solar energy farms continue to pop up across the Mojave Desert, some residents are being squeezed out of their homes: the threatened desert tortoise. And while developers take steps to find ...
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 ...
Groundhog Day marks the start of Mojave Max watch. The desert tortoise mascot is Clark County's official prognosticator, but it'll be a while before he emerges.
The monument also serves to preserve the area's incredibly biodiverse land, nearly two-thirds of which is critical habitat for the endangered Mojave Desert tortoise and the desert pupfish.
The monument also serves to preserve the area's incredibly biodiverse land, nearly two-thirds of which is critical habitat for the endangered Mojave Desert tortoise and the desert pupfish. The new ...