Off-roading is now off-limits on routes spanning 1 million acres of the western Mojave Desert after a six-year legal battle ...
The Mojave Desert is often portrayed as empty space waiting to be filled with solar panels, but the ground beneath those arrays can be as biologically rich as any national park. New research on a ...
A rare desert plant is flourishing at a solar farm near Las Vegas, a new study finds.
Toronto-based energy storage developer Hydrostor has secured permission to build a 500-megawatt compressed-air energy storage system in the Mojave Desert and is now seeking customers to contract the ...
Though SMUD announced Jan. 5 that it would be canceling its power purchase agreement with the Coyote Creek Agrivoltaic Ranch ...
Prospectors Sean Hart (L) and Ron Kliewer (R) of Sundown Resources work at a uranium mine in San Bernardino County, Calif., ...
Although sunlight is one of the cleanest forms of renewable energy available, clearing large swathes of desert habitat to build solar arrays has consequences for the plants and animals it displaces.
The research, published late November in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, was led by DRI ecologist Tiffany Pereira. She and her team monitored the Gemini Solar Project for a rare plant called ...
The electricity it makes is expensive, its technology has been superseded, and it's incinerating thousands of birds mid-flight each year.