"I always want people to put issues like this in context. In talking about something like avian mortality, we must ask -- how many birds are killed every year because of office buildings and residential houses in the U.S. compared to how many are killed by energy projects?"

At 500,000 square miles, the Gobi is the fifth largest desert in the world, and nearly all of it is undeveloped.

If there were no adverse consequences of this kind of water mining, and if all that mattered was money, then perhaps using up this stock of water and turning it into a private good would make sense -- at least to the project owners.

CADIZ, Calif. -- Off historic Route 66 in the heart of the California desert the barren landscape of dry scrub and rock abruptly gives way to an oasis...

WASHINGTON — California's Mojave Desert may seem ideally suited for solar energy production, but concern over what several proposed projects mig...

Not since the Gold Rush has there been such a stampede to stake out land in California and surrounding states, except this time, solar energy is the p...