A rare plant species thrives amid solar panels in the Nevada desert

The ostensibly barren Mojave Desert is in fact teeming with plants and animals, including a rare species known as the ...
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Solar farms turn into sanctuaries for rare plants like threecorner milkvetch

The Mojave Desert is often portrayed as empty space waiting to be filled with solar panels, but the ground beneath those arrays can be as biologically rich as any national park. New research on a ...

A rare desert plant shows benefits of sustainability efforts at a large solar array in the Mojave Desert

Although sunlight is one of the cleanest forms of renewable energy available, clearing large swathes of desert habitat to build solar arrays has consequences for the plants and animals it displaces.
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The race to save seeds of California's disappearing Joshua tree

In a small room tucked into the corner of the Mojave Desert Land Trust’s headquarters in Joshua Tree, three nondescript white refrigerators hold the future fate of the desert landscape. The ...