The Mojave Desert species is thriving at a solar farm near Las Vegas, perhaps because the panels slow evaporation.
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Solar farms turn into sanctuaries for rare plants like threecorner milkvetch
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 ...
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.
Public lands in the California desert are filled with privately owned parcels.
LOS ANGELES — What was once the world's largest solar power plant of its type appears headed for closure just 11 years after opening, under pressure from cheaper green energy sources. Meanwhile, ...
In a small room tucked into the corner of the Mojave Desert Land Trust’s headquarters in Joshua Tree, three nondescript white refrigerators hold the future fate of the desert landscape. The ...
When it comes to one of California’s most beloved plants, the forecast is dire. Projections suggest that much of Joshua trees’ habitat will become unsuitable by the end of the century as the planet ...
A proposed solar power plant near Baker, rejected by the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors nearly a decade ago, has been revived under a new law allowing developers to bypass local approval ...
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