RIVERSIDE, Calif.—For four hours, Mark Carrington sat quietly with his neighbors at the front of his county’s supervisors’ late August board meeting, waiting for his chance to speak. They were there ...

Most people recognize that our current relationship with fossil fuels is untenable. The more we burn them, the faster we cook our planet, turning the climate hotter and "weirder," triggering ...

In the beginning … there was a thud. It was an unwanted sound, and one that resonated around the world. Think back over 20 years ago to Sept. 8, 2004. That's when NASA's Genesis sample return capsule ...

Large solar farms in the deserts of China are not only producing vast amounts of electricity but also reshaping the ecosystems beneath them, according to a growing body of peer-reviewed research. A ...

BORON, Calif. — A renewable energy company will soon begin clearing thousands of protected Joshua trees just outside this desert town, including many thought to be a century old, to make way for a ...

A bitterly contested commercial solar project in the California desert was unanimously approved by the Riverside County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday after what one official described as a "doozy" ...

(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 ...

Rich Mithoff A view of Monday's partial solar eclipse shared by Rich Mithoff from Bend's River Canyon Estates Brent Bunch Prineville resident Brent Bunch, a frequent contributor to NewsChannel 21, was ...

The Mojave Desert gets a more than 3,200 hours of sunshine on average per year, making it a prime spot for producing solar energy. A measure was introduced in Sacramento that would give rideshare ...