Solar could provide both clean energy and freshwater. Water scarcity is a major global challenge - more than two billion people live in places with an inadequate water supply - and the effects of ...

Federal plans to open up the desert for massive solar farms has angered environmentalists. Story by Matthew Rozsa • 12h.

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. From this vantage ...

Clean Energy Solar Is Booming in the California Desert, if Water Issues Don’t Get in the Way Utility-scale solar farms spreading rapidly across the desert Southwest are stressing the region’s ...

Amazon officials recently announced that its first solar farm-plus-battery energy storage project has become fully operational in the High Desert. Located in Baldy Mesa near Adelanto, the project ...

Amazon officials recently announced that its first solar farm-plus-battery energy storage project has become fully operational in the High Desert. Located in Baldy Mesa near Adelanto, the project ...

Covering 20% of the Sahara with solar farms raises local temperatures in the desert by 1.5°C according to our model. At 50% coverage, the temperature increase is 2.5°C.

Solar farms stretch out mile after mile along Interstate 10 around Palm Springs, creating one of the densest areas of solar development in North America in the heart of California’s Colorado Desert.

But even if Sunrun’s business continues to grow, it won’t eliminate the need for large solar farms in the desert. ... 19 injured in ‘high-impact’ air ambulance crash in Philadelphia VIEW; ...

In an aerial view, thousands of solar panels spread across Chuckwalla Valley, just outside the proposed Chuckwalla Mountains National Monument, which was reduced 40,000 acres to placate rapidly ...