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, ...

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 ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. An array of mirrors at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating site is shown near Primm, Nev., Aug. 13, 2014 ...

Going unnoticed can be the ironwood, mesquite, palo verde and various flowers like globemallow and chuparosa, all edible and native to the Sonoran Desert. These plants can teach us how to live in ...

Dried root samples were pulverized and sifted through a 100-mesh screen to measure plant root carbon content (RCC), root nitrogen content (RNC ... and Rs components within the unique context of the ...

we now live in the desert in a fire prone ecosystem. And that's a big, big change both in terms of how we think of the desert, and also how the desert has functioned for hundreds of years, if not ...

LOS ANGELES, California: A once-celebrated solar power plant in the Mojave Desert is now facing closure, just 11 years after its grand opening. The Ivanpah solar plant, once the world's largest of its ...