International Study Links Bird Deaths to Chinese Solar Panels
http://www.breitbart.com/environment/2026/08/21/international-study-links-bird-deaths-to-chinese-solar-panels/
A paper published in Science on Friday found that China’s rapid construction of solar panels has damaged the environment and reduced biodiversity, especially among birds, who have lost habitat space plus foraging and breeding grounds to the vast fields of photovoltaic cells.
The Science paper — produced by researchers from China, Vietnam, and the United States — began with the required genuflections towards the renewable energy industry but admitted that “clean energy also will have a large footprint on nature.”
Researchers studied over 2,000 counties in China and found those with the most solar panels experienced “reductions in bird diversity, primarily due to land conversion.”
“Land conversion” is the preferred euphemism for gigantic fields of solar panels gobbling up land that was formerly used for agriculture or environmental preserves. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has lately been promoting “agrivoltaics,” which means figuring out ways to continue growing crops, herding livestock, and building insect pollinator colonies in the shadow of massive solar panels.
The Science paper, on the other hand, rather bluntly concluded that solar farms ought to be built in deserts and other sparse terrain because they indisputably have a negative effect on vegetation, which in turn harms birds that rely on the vegetation for food and shelter.
China is building solar panels at a more rapid pace than other nations, so the negative effects on biodiversity became apparent quickly in the shadow of vast Chinese solar farms. China’s “solar footprint” now covers acreage “equivalent in size to the U.S. state of Rhode Island.”
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