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

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 ...

There’s still plenty of gold in California’s fertile dirt. It lies dormant most of the year until the warm days of early ...

If there’s a single origin to my scientific career, it’s the moment Charlie Longenecker introduced me to chicory.

The five-member Board of Water and Power Commissioners will decide Tuesday whether to approve the one-year private security ...

Deep in the Mojave National Preserve lies an old open pit mine where workers dug and drilled for gold and silver from the ...

The organization also operates an onsite nursery at its Joshua Tree headquarters which has grown over 120,000 native plants for restoration projects and community landscaping. Mojave Desert Land ...

These plants tend to support specific ... a functional part of the ecosystem,” he said. And the eastern Mojave Desert is still a frontier for species discovery, meaning that scientists don ...