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 towers, ...

As Australia swelters through a scorching summer, the nation's flora is facing not just extreme heat, but also prolonged heat ...

For some, Ivanpah now stands as a huge, shiny monument to wasted tax dollars and environmental damage. For others, failures ...

A video that has been making rounds on social media all week shows two bewildered-looking bighorn sheep crossing Palm Canyon ...

but it is also a habitat for threatened desert tortoises. While the plant’s developers agreed to a series of measures to protect and relocate the animals, many environmentalists believed the ...

Plant ecologist Associate Professor Andy Leigh's research focuses on how plants withstand heat stress, to develop strategies ...

In its Short-Term Energy Outlook, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) is projecting 26 gigawatts of solar capacity to ...

It is part of an effort to ditch the use of drinking water for outdoor watering and replace it with treated wastewater. The ...

What was once the largest solar power plant of its type in the world appears headed for closure just 11 years after opening ...