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For some, Ivanpah now stands as a huge, shiny monument to wasted tax dollars and environmental damage. For others, failures ...

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, ...

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An activist says 42.9 million square feet of logistics centers — 745 football fields’ worth — are under environmental review.

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The city of Flagstaff has taken big steps to preserve the clarity of its night sky. Find out the best ways to experience the ...

It was the biggest hall yet from an asteroid ... These samples are being analyzed in 60 labs around the world, and the ...