Wind turbines kill birds. But when a wind farm in Norway made this incredibly simple switch, bird deaths dropped by 70 percent. Here's what happened.

Wind turbines kill some birds, but their contribution to total bird deaths is extremely low, as three studies show. Wind farms are hardly the bird slayers they’re made out to be. Here’s why ...

Wind turbines kill between 214,000 and 368,000 birds annually — a small fraction compared with the estimated 6.8 million fatalities from collisions with cell and radio towers and the 1.4 billion ...

"Bird kills [by wind turbines] are limited to less than 0.02% of the total populations of songbird species, and orders of magnitude less than other causes," the president's own Department of ...

In a clever bit of science, Katovich compared the Christmas Bird Count numbers with data showing where wind turbines were built in America’s lower 48 states between 2000 and 2020.

Windmills in the Altamont Pass near Livermore will be partially shut down this winter to protect birds that have been flying into turbine blades and dying in large numbers. This is the first time ...

Wind turbines operate more efficiently at the high wind speeds, Horton says, while birds tend to avoid flying on windy nights. "If we're getting large pulses of [migrating birds] ...

A long-awaited federal report on the environmental impact of wind power suggests birds have far more to fear from high buildings, power lines and cats than they do from the swirling blades of wind ...

The wind-power industry celebrated Global Wind Day on Wednesday, an occasion promoted by the wind-lobby group American Wind Energy Association to tout the benefits of wind power. The same group is ...

Wild birds that carry flu viruses in their guts and shed them in their poop are believed to be the main way H5N1 has been introduced onto farms. Still, experts say the windborne spread of bird flu ...

Windmills Are Killing Our Birds. One standard for oil companies, another for green energy sources. By . Robert Bryce. Share. Resize. On Aug. 13, ExxonMobil pleaded guilty in federal court to ...

Windmills vs. Birds. About 70 golden eagles are killed every year by turbines at California's Altamont Pass, reports the LA Times. By . Robert Bryce. Share. Resize.