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The Ivanpah solar plant in Southern California killed 6,185 birds in 2015. That includes burning about 1,145 birds with the intense heat coming off its many mirrored heliostat panels, according to a recent report on the government-backed solar project. An audit of how many birds and bats Ivanpah kills every year found “there were an estimated 2500 fatalities from known causes and 3686 fatalities from unknown causes” last year. Of the known fatalities, nearly 46 percent were killed by the intense, concentrated heat used to generate electricity. Western EcoSystems Technology, the firm auditing Ivanpah, estimated about 1,145 dead birds have...

MUCH LIKE THEIR MYTHICAL NAMESAKES VAMPIRE BATS MUST FEAST ON FRESH BLOOD EVERY 2-3 DAYS OR DIE OF STARVATION. THEY SEEK OUT WARM-BLOODED MAMMALS THRIVING OFF DOMESTIC LIVESTOCK LIVING IN THE TROPICAL REGIONS OF SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA. MOST VICTIMS NEVER FEEL A THING AND THE BITE ITSELF IS SUPERFICIAL. BUT INCREASINGLY BATS ARE TARGETING HUMANS AND THE ENCOUNTERS ARE TURNING DEADLY. THE BATS ARE BLAMED FOR RABIES OUTBREAKS IN PERU AND NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC GRANTEE DANIEL STREICKER IS RESEARCHING THE ENVIRONMENTAL CAUSES AND EXTENT OF THE DISEASE. "Vampire bats are kind of the perfect storm of different ecological characteristics. On...

CARACAS, Venezuela — At least 38 Warao Indians have died in remote villages in Venezuela, and medical experts suspect an outbreak of rabies spread by bites from vampire bats. -snip-

<p>Rabies-carrying vampire bats killed at least 13 people in a remote Amazon town in Brazil's northern state of Para last month, authorities said on Friday.</p> <p>The state health care department said the thumb-sized creatures had attacked about 300 people -- an unusually high number -- since March 2 in the riverside Portel area, next to the world's biggest estuarine archipelago of Marajo.</p>

20 attacked by vampire batsFrom correspondents in Lima, Peru March 27, 2004 AT least 20 people were attacked and bitten by vampire bats as they returned home from work in the jungle community of Mansiche, Peru, a top official at the Ministry of Health said. Luis Suarez, the head of the ministry's Office of Epidemiology, today said that the attacks occurred late Tuesday. Victims panicked, fearing the bats were infected with rabies. But tests on the victims and several of the bats were negative, Suarez said. The Ministry of Health yesterday launched an information campaign to inform people in the...