Once a distant dream of clean energy, solar power now spreads like sunlight itself. Vast, unstoppable, and life-giving. Miles-long rows of solar panels humming under the desert sun, powering whole ...

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, ...

A satellite photo of an almost-finished solar farm near Walt Disney World in Orlando reveals a familiar face. Image Courtesy of NearMap.com In just a few weeks, the world’s largest floating solar ...

As development pushes these charismatic owls from their underground nesting sites, a solar project aims to show that habitat ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

One point I didn’t make in last week’s column on California’s endless solar infighting: More rooftop solar systems could mean (relatively) less need for sprawling desert solar farms that harm ...

When you think of the eastern Negev desert, images of endless sand dunes and sleepy silence probably come to mind—hardly a ...

A 1GW solar-storage project in northwest China is now underway, with Trinasolar supplying 210MW of its high-efficiency Vertex N 720W series modules. Scheduled to be grid-connected by the end of this ...

Forget roaring lawnmowers and fuel-guzzling tractors. Today's solar companies are turning to flocks of sheep to trim grass and control weeds under solar panels. These eco-friendly grazers easily ...

The Imperial Irrigation District, which provides water to farmers in the southeastern corner of California, drew a figurative line in the sand earlier this month, calling for a halt to the conversion ...