While droughts are common in California, this year’s is much hotter and drier than others, evaporating water more quickly from the reservoirs and the sparse Sierra Nevada snowpack that feeds them.
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The Avengers Campus, which opens Friday, seeks to be an immersive experience that allows guests to become super-heroic across a series of rides, shows and eateries from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
At least a tenth of the world’s mature giant sequoia trees were destroyed by a single California wildfire that tore through the southern Sierra Nevada last year, according to a draft report prepared by scientists with the National Park Service.
Saliva and oral bacteria samples from 30 UNLV dental clinic patients will take off Thursday in a rocket bound for the International Space Station.
The 56-year-old man was hiking with two other people on Memorial Day when he fell from the summit ridge of Mount Russell, the National Park Service said in a statement Tuesday.
Amazon said Wednesday that it will hold its annual Prime Day over two days in June this year, the earliest it has ever held the sales event.