11 years after a celebrated opening, massive solar plant faces a bleak future in the Mojave Desert
What was once the world's largest solar power plant of its type appears headed for closure just 11 years after opening, under ...
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Desert birds are the first to feel the effects of a warming planet. They need our help
In the Mojave Desert, bird communities are collapsing, mostly because of climate change, according to researchers at the University of California, Berkeley. The Mojave sites they surveyed have ...
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As solar farms sprout up in Southern Nevada, concern for desert tortoises grows
As solar energy farms continue to pop up across the Mojave Desert, some residents are being squeezed out of their homes: the ...
Boiling Point: Farewell to Ivanpah, the world’s ugliest solar plant
Case in point: the Ivanpah solar project. Maybe you’ve seen the unsightly, blindingly bright towers while traveling from L.A.
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'Gitmo' in the Mojave: How the Marines are saving endangered desert tortoises
Desert tortoises were once so plentiful that people driving through the Mojave would take them home ... to the irrigation of alfalfa fields, the birds have year-round sources of drinking water ...
Public land in Mojave Desert just named as California's newest national monument
Chuckwalla National Monument was established by outgoing President Joe Biden as one of his last actions to help restore ...
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The Moab to Mojave Conservation Corridor: A Cornerstone of Protection
Birds, too, rely on this connectivity, nesting in higher elevations of the Colorado Plateau and wintering in the warmer Mojave Desert. With the impacts of climate change, wildlife more and more will ...