California''s $2.2B Solar Plant Closing Over Tech
California''s multibillion-dollar Ivanpah solar plant is closing down after failing to scale, falling behind new tech, and killing thousands of birds.
Bus 142 to embark on final journey | Geophysical Institute
Over the years, the abandoned bus hosted hunters, trappers and wanderers who happened upon the rain-and-bear resistant shelter just north of Denali National Park and Preserve.
Giant Chinese Dam May Cause Earth to Move | Geophysical Institute
As the water rises, it will drown more than 1,400 rural towns and villages abandoned earlier by government decree. The water rising behind the dam will power 26 huge turbines to
Over $2 Billion California Solar Plant Built To Last, Now
The partially taxpayer-funded Ivanpah Solar Power Facility in California''s Mojave Desert is set to shut down in 2026 due to inefficiency in generating solar energy,
Ghost ship artifacts emerge in museum | Geophysical Institute
The captain and crew abandoned the ship, which carried furs from Canadian trappers and a variety of other cargo. Following the ice''s capture of the Baychimo, the captain and 14 men
Rock redwoods in Sutton, stone bird tracks in Denali | Geophysical
A few years ago, Chris Williams found a big tree on the grounds of an abandoned coal mine in Sutton, Alaska. It was six feet in diameter, stood more than 110 feet above the surrounding
Biologist creates legacy at village goose camp | Geophysical Institute
The book features a quarter century of kids aged 13 and older from the small Cu''pik-speaking village of Chevak. The children each spent a few days at the abandoned village site of Old
Bitter weather may have wiped out reindeer | Geophysical Institute
Biologist Dave Klein first stepped on the island in 1957, 13 years after the Coast Guard had abandoned it. Klein, 82, now a professor emeritus for the University of Alaska Fairbanks'' Institute of
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$2.2 billion solar plant in California scheduled to be turned off after
Construction began in 2010 and was completed in 2014. Now it''s set to close in 2026 after failing to efficiently generate solar energy.
Ghost towns scattered across Alaska map | Geophysical Institute
There are at least 100 abandoned settlements in Alaska. That''s the number Beth Mikow figured as she wrote her master''s thesis for UAF in 2010. Mikow, who now works for the Alaska
Pondering the mystery of the Mesa people | Geophysical Institute
In a paper he wrote on the Mesa Site, Kunz noted that the hunters there abandoned that excellent lookout about 9,700 years ago. For the next 2,000 years, there were probably few or no
Abandoned Cold War Radar Stations in Alaska | Geophysical Institute
On windy, cold nights a few decades ago, men in darkened rooms north of the Arctic Circle spent their evenings watching radar screens.