Conventional images of the Earth and the moon place them close together, the moon hovering, seemingly, right over our planet's shoulder. Of course, this isn't accurate; we know just from looking at ...
Plans to build a major solar farm slated for the Nevada desert appear to have been canceled as federal officials shift priorities surrounding the nation’s energy generation. The environmental review ...
Known as Esmeralda 7, the project planned in the Nevada desert would have produced enough energy to power nearly two million homes. By Maxine Joselow Reporting from Washington An enormous solar power ...
Most people recognize that our current relationship with fossil fuels is untenable. The more we burn them, the faster we cook our planet, turning the climate hotter and "weirder," triggering ...
DYER, Nev. – Leaving Las Vegas, where the sprawl once gave way to scrub land and Joshua trees, the desert in many places is being transformed. New industrial scale solar farms go for miles, their neat ...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A California company says it intends to spend billions of dollars to build the largest solar power plant in the world on a sprawling 25-square-mile plot in the sun-baked Nevada desert ...
A solar farm in the remote Nevada desert will double MGM International’s capacity to use solar energy, the company announced Thursday. It entered a power purchase agreement with a utility-scale solar ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — 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, ...
As solar energy farms continue to pop up across the Mojave Desert, some residents are being squeezed out of their homes: the threatened desert tortoise. And while developers take steps to find them ...