Approximately 40 minutes west of the Las Vegas Valley is an area of Mojave Desert habitat around 30,000 acres that big developers would like to make a solar sacrifice zone. The applications are in and being reviewed, and our window to stop them is short. The Bureau of Land Management is accepting public comment on one of these projects named…
The Mojave and Great Basin deserts are vital habitat for a very diverse range of plant and animal species. Biodiversity is crucial to the systems that support life on this planet. While climate change must be addressed as quickly and as justly as possible, we must also do so without wiping out more biodiversity. Two-thirds of the planet’s wildlife has…
The award-winning film series Desert Apocalypse, directed by Justin McAffee, is back for a second season! In this episode we travel to the Pahrump Valley and up to Beatty, Nevada to look at the landscapes threatened by solar. In the Pahrump Valley at the Yellow Pine Solar project site, we see a few thousand acres of desert habitat has been…
Climate change is an existential threat to humanity and the planet. The continued and increasing extraction and consumption of fossil fuels is the source of this threat, and it must be stopped. Unfortunately, that’s not the only existential threat to humanity and the planet. The other is the extinction crisis, and scientists have stated with no hesitation that it is…
Kevin and Laura were recently on hand to speak with journalists at the Yellow Pine Solar project in the South Pahrump Valley to discuss the deaths of several translocated Mojave desert tortoises. Sadly some 30 of the 139 translocated tortoises from the project site have died in a matter of weeks, raising concerns about the solar development’s impact on the…