Solar panels have gotten so cheap that the plant, born of an old attempt at harnessing the power of the sun, appears to be ...

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

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, ...

A major step in the process of building a new airport south of Las Vegas to supplement Harry Reid International Airport operations is expected to begin sometime this year.

Absent intervention by state wildlife officials, Nevada’s state animal, the desert bighorn sheep, may see its herds thinned by starvation because of drought. “Over the course of the last month ...

The Painted Desert, located within the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona, is a tapestry of vibrant colors and ...

A research team has achieved a gapless assembly of Syntrichia caninervis's genome, totaling 323.44 Mbp with an N50 value of ...

A controversial development is underway in the small Mojave Desert town of Boron. Residents feel left in the dust.

Shutterstock One of the Most Extreme Places in the West Coast Death Valley National Park covers 3.4 million acres in ...

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 ...

A massive solar plant in the Mojave Desert appears headed for closure 11 years after its opening. According to ABC News, the plant has been struggling to stay competitive against cheaper solar ...