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LA county sheriff’s deputy dies after medical emergency during relay race

Levi Vargas, 30, was competing in Baker to Vegas race through Mojave desert as US south-west faces extreme heat

The Guardian - US

The Mojave's Off-Road Trail Closure Isn't What The Blue Ribbon Coalition Wants You to Believe It Is

Press surrounding the closure of a handful of off-road trails in the Mojave are that of 'the sky is falling.' The truth is far more benign, but that's not what the Blue Ribbon Coalition wants you to think.

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Fallout Season 2 Episode 2 recap: 'Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter'

The Golden Rule.

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After 3 years and a handoff to a new team, the ambitious Project Mojave mod imagining New Vegas in the time of Fallout 4 has ceased development

The Bethesda game total conversion is a difficult path not for the faint of heart.

PC Gamer

This Mojave Desert Tour May Be The Perfect Getaway, Just Don't Die

The Mojave Desert Tour is set to take place from October 27 to 29, and is brought to you by EagleRider and Yamaha.

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A single character shows why Fallout: New Vegas is a classic

Chief Hanlon is a quiet triumph in an all-time great RPG.

PC Gamer

The Jeep Gladiator Mojave Isn't the Desert Runner You Want

It’s a fun truck, but Ford and Chevy have better options.

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Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer reveals which characters he took from Black Isle Studio's canceled Fallout 3

The Mojave owes a lot to Codename Van Buren

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In a charred moonscape, a band of hopeful workers try to save the Joshua tree

After flames destroyed 1.3 million Joshua trees in Mojave National Preserve, biologists began replanting seedlings. But many have died, and now another fire has torched more of the iconic succulents.

WEKU

Erratic winds pose fresh threat to firefighters as rain helps with Mojave desert fire

A brief downpour helped crews on the ground, but experts warn they could face unstable wind conditions that could blow fire back at them

The Guardian - US

Solar sprawl is tearing up the Mojave Desert. Is there a better way?

LAS VEGAS — High above the Las Vegas Strip, solar panels blanketed the roof of Mandalay Bay Convention Center — 26,000 of them, rippling across an area larger than 20 football fields.

Los Angeles Times

How solar farms took over the California desert: ‘An oasis has become a dead sea’

Residents feel trapped and choked by dust, while experts warn environmental damage is ‘solving one problem by creating others’

The Guardian - US

2022 Nissan Frontier Pro-4X Overlanding Feature: The Old-School New Truck

A centuries-old trail in the Mojave and the power of nature conspired to make the final drive of these Frontiers one to remember.

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Motor1.com Test Car Happy Hour #31: Jeep Gladiator Mojave And Ram 2500 Rebel

We're talking pickups this week.

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Can bighorns, a bullet train and a huge solar farm coexist in the Mojave Desert?

BAKER, Calif. — To most travelers on Interstate 15 between Barstow and Las Vegas, the Mojave Desert’s jagged Soda Mountains rise above a seemingly lifeless wasteland of hellish sand dunes, lava flows and vast flatlands.

The Independent UK

Biden to protect 450,000 acres of land around Nevada’s Spirit Mountain

A large tract of land around Spirit Mountain – known as Avi Kwa Ame in the Mojave language – will be protected from development, president announces

Los Angeles Times

California’s Mojave desert tortoises move toward extinction. Why saving them is so hard

CALIFORNIA CITY, Calif. — Behind the fences surrounding this 40-square-mile outback of cactus and wiry creosote, the largest remaining population of Mojave desert tortoises was soaking up the morning sun and grazing on a mix of wild greens and flowers.

Daily Mirror

Largest plane in world seen carrying jet capable of firing hypersonic weapons

The Stratolaunch aircraft has a 117-metre wingspan and took over the Mojave desert in California and flew for five hours and six minutes, reaching altitudes of 7000 metres

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Meet the California professor who hiked 500 miles across the Mojave Desert

LOS ANGELES — In teaching geology, many professors might crack open a textbook or click through a PowerPoint presentation. Nick Van Buer, an associate professor of geology at Cal Poly Pomona, has something far more interesting to share: stories, videos and maybe even a few cool scars from his 530-mile…

Los Angeles Times

Death Valley to reopen after flooding; Joshua Tree and Mojave parks still repairing damage

LOS ANGELES — As Death Valley National Park gets ready to reopen its most popular sites on Saturday after heavy flooding, California national parks are still reeling from the aftermath.

The Guardian - US

As police crack down on homelessness, unhoused end up in Mojave desert

On the edge of northern Los Angeles county, at least 200 people are living in tents and trailers on remote, harsh terrain. ‘They treat us like we’re a lost cause,’ one resident said

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Auto review: Conquering the Mojave in the burly Chevy Silverado ZR2

Joshua Tree National Park, California — At 4,200 feet above sea level here in the arid Mojave desert, not much survives. The landscape is raw, rocky, brown. Except for the enduring Joshua Tree. As if taken from the pages of a Dr. Seuss book, its hydra-like branches extend from the…

The Guardian - UK

Catriona Ward: ‘When done right, horror is a transformative experience’

The award-winning novelist on the Mojave desert, her itinerant childhood and her longstanding hypnagogic hallucinations

InsideEVs

Tesla Model 3 Vs $100K Jeep Gladiator: Mojave Off-Road Challenge

This modified Model 3 must make its way through the most difficult conditions, including high temps, rock obstacles, and deep water crossings. Will it survive?

The Guardian - US

‘Like witnessing a birth in a morgue’: the volunteers working to save the Joshua trees

If carbon emissions stay at current levels, just 0.02% of the desert trees would survive. Volunteers are now banding together to plant seedlings

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