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 ...

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

Chicory is a common, weedy plant in the daisy family ... drought-tolerant succulents native to the Mojave Desert. Joshua trees have a unique relationship with very specialized pollinating moths ...

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 ...