Workers at a state-of-the-art solar plant in the Mojave Desert have a name for birds that fly through the plant's concentrated sun rays - "streamers," for the smoke plume that comes from birds ...

This October 2013 photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a burned MacGillivray's Warbler that was found at the Ivanpah solar plant in the California Mojave Desert.

A windy stretch of the Mojave Desert once roamed by tortoises and coyotes has been transformed by hundreds of thousands of mirrors into the largest solar power plant of its type in the world, a ...

The city of Los Angeles has dropped plans to buy electricity from a controversial solar plant proposed for the Mojave Desert, delivering a serious blow to the most environmentally sensitive ...

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. will announce contracts today for three new large solar power plants in the Mojave Desert, whose open spaces and clear skies have placed it at the center of a ...

The fight over solar farms in the Mojave Desert,” Nov. 3) Farms are areas of land used to cultivate living crops. Solar “farms” are places where living plants (and animals) are mowed down ...

BrightSource EnergyÕs first 100 MW commercial plant in the Mojave Desert will consist of approximately 50,000 heliostats. ... geothermal fields, solar power plants, ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — What was once the world's largest solar power plant of its type appears headed for closure just 11 years after opening, under pressure from cheaper green energy sources.

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 ...

Solar Plants in Mojave Desert Scorch Birds Mid-Air By Ellen Knickmeyer and John Locher • Published August 19, 2014 • Updated on August 19, 2014 at 12:35 pm • Published August 19, 2014 ...

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 ...