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, ...

The California Fish and Game Commission has formally recognized the Mojave desert tortoise as endangered ... About 1 million animal and plant species are at risk of being endangered — more ...

“Unless this bee is protected, the Mojave Desert is at risk of losing three species that define its essence ... About 90 percent of wild plants and 75 percent of leading global food crops — including ...

Solar projects in the Mojave Desert are becoming more common ... and are difficult to find,” Cunningham said. “All these animals are just disrupted,” she said. “And their ecosystem ...