From a small California winery to a large-scale energy project in China, floating photovoltaics — or “floatovoltaics”— are gaining in popularity. Commonly installed over artificial water bodies, from ...

America’s solar farms have a bird problem. Utility companies have been finding bird carcasses littering the ground at their facilities for years, a strange and unexpected consequence of the national ...

During a meeting at Palm Springs City Hall in June, public commenters tore into the Palen solar farm, which would be built on 4,200 acres of public land just south of Joshua Tree National Park. One of ...

You might never have seen an Yuma clapper rail. Fewer than 1,000 are thought to still be sloshing about in cattail-thick marshes from Mexico up to Utah and across to California. But if you were lucky ...

Recent news reports that a giant solar power plant in the Mojave Desert is scorching birds in mid-air spurred a fierce debate over the environmental impacts of renewable energy, and left us all ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Home solar panels have a lot of benefits — both for the environment and your bank account — but they do come with their own sets of ...

MONTPELIER — Renewable energy leaders are joining with bees and birds to make solar power projects more eco-friendly. Speakers for solar power gathered at the North Branch Nature Center on Tuesday to ...

David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...