Before the 1960s, the fourth largest lake on Earth glistened for miles across the borders of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. By ...

An Icy Expanse The Antarctic Desert may come as a surprise to many as it doesn't fit our conventional idea of sand and heat.

Tucked away in the rugged terrain of the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park is the world’s largest wooden trestle bridge, a ...

The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) — the world's largest visible- and infrared-light telescope — is currently under development on the Cerro Armazones mountain ...

ESO estimates the complex will leak as much light pollution as a city with a population of about 20,000. Parts of the ...

What was once the largest solar power plant of its type in the world appears headed for closure just 11 years after opening ...

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, ...

China just made history by revealing the largest solar farm in the world, located in the western deserts of Gobi. The South China Morning Post and Asia Financial estimate that this enormous project ...

What was once the largest solar power plant of its type in the world appears headed for closure ... environmentalists continue to blame the Mojave Desert plant for killing thousands of birds ...