Aug. 13, 2014. (AP Photo/John Locher, File) An endangered desert tortoise sits in the middle of a road at the proposed location of three BrightSource Energy solar-energy generation complexes in the ...

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, ...

One of St. George Mayor Michele Randall’s main focuses over the coming year will be working with state and county leaders to ...

According to ABC News, the plant has been struggling to stay competitive against cheaper solar technologies on the market.

Chuckwalla National Monument was established by outgoing President Joe Biden as one of his last actions to help restore endangered desert tortoise habitats.

A major step in the process of building a new airport south of Las Vegas to supplement Harry Reid International Airport ...

As solar energy farms continue to pop up across the Mojave Desert, some residents are being squeezed out of their homes: the threatened desert tortoise. And while developers take steps to find ...

Groundhog Day marks the start of Mojave Max watch. The desert tortoise mascot is Clark County's official prognosticator, but ...

The Living Desert in Palm Desert uses a desert tortoise, Mojave Maxine, to indicate when spring has arrived. Since 2006, a ...

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 monument also serves to preserve the area's incredibly biodiverse land, nearly two-thirds of which is critical habitat for the endangered Mojave Desert tortoise and the desert pupfish.