Tens of thousands of years ago, on the territory of the uninhabited Sahara Desert, gardens flourished, rivers flowed, ancient ...

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 ...

But that hasn’t stopped corporations from making plans to carpet the desert surrounding Las Vegas with dozens of giant solar fields — some of them designed to supply power to California.

Federal plans to open up the desert for massive solar farms has angered environmentalists Bureau of Land Management just revealed an ambitious plan for renewable energy. So why are ...

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 ...

Researchers imagine it might be possible to transform the world’s largest desert, the Sahara, into a giant solar farm, capable of meeting four times the world’s current energy demand.

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

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

Corporations are making plans to carpet the desert surrounding Las Vegas with giant solar fields. Those energy generators could imperil rare plants and slow-footed tortoises, but also lessen the ...

One of them is building fewer wind farms in the West’s windiest states, particularly Wyoming, and more solar farms in the sunny desert Southwest.

The desert region—thanks to its elevation and clear, dry air—receives reliable sunlight 330 to 350 days per year. Not everyone thinks the solar plant represents a brighter future.