Saving desert tortoises is a costly hurdle for solar projects
Saturday, March 3, 2012 - 10:00
in Biology & Nature
BrightSource Energy has spent $56 million so far to protect the endangered creatures, but calamities have befallen the effort.Stubborn does not come close to describing the desert tortoise, a species that did its evolving more than 220 million years ago and has since remained resolutely prehistoric.