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, ...

There are no stoplights in Boron. There’s no youth center either, though much of the town’s daily life revolves around its children. There are still Joshua trees, only a few thousand less now. Carless ...