Grist reports solar farms, like the Gemini project, can enhance biodiversity, supporting rare plants like the threecorner milkvetch through ecovoltaics.

The Mojave Desert is often portrayed as empty space waiting to be filled with solar panels, but the ground beneath those arrays can be as biologically rich as any national park. New research on a ...

Although sunlight is one of the cleanest forms of renewable energy available, clearing large swathes of desert habitat to build solar arrays has consequences for the plants and animals it displaces.

LOS ANGELES — 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, ...

(CNN) — 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 ...