Ethan Miller/Getty Images A California utility wants to end its agreement to buy power from a giant solar farm in the Mojave Desert because it found cheaper alternative clean energy sources ...
It's a brisk day in Johannesburg, a tiny mining town tucked among the Rand Mountains in the Mojave Desert. The landscape is vast and rugged, a mish-mash of rock, dirt and creosote bushes ...
Aug. 13, 2014. (AP Photo/John Locher, File) An endangered desert tortoise sits in the middle of a road at the proposed ...
Assembled in rows across a westward stretch of the Mojave Desert in San Bernardino County, solar panels at the Baldy Mesa ...
HABITAT: The desert tortoise lives in valleys, flat areas, and dry alluvial fans and washes. In the Mojave and Colorado deserts, tortoises are generally found below 4,000 feet in Joshua tree-Mohave ...
Meanwhile, environmentalists continue to blame the Mojave Desert plant for killing thousands of birds and tortoises. The Ivanpah solar power plant formally opened in 2014 on roughly 5 square miles ...
Meanwhile, environmentalists continue to blame the Mojave Desert plant for killing thousands of birds and tortoises. LOS ANGELES (AP) — What was once the world's largest solar power plant of its ...