A multi-state agreement aimed at slowing the decline of Lake Mead can’t be finished until California finds a way to solve two major, long-simmering environmental fights, top water managers said Thursday.
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It would take more than a decade and cost at least $30 billion before the shuttered underground dump site at Yucca Mountain could begin accepting shipments of highly radioactive waste, according to experts on the controversial project.
The U.S. government on Monday finalized long-delayed rules that will require “quiet cars” like electric vehicles and hybrids to emit alert sounds at speeds of up to 18.6 mph to help prevent injuries among pedestrians, cyclists and the blind.
A team of researchers from UNLV has announced the discovery of a set of fossilized footprints from a 290-million-year-old reptile on a rock slab in the Gold Butte area, about 115 miles northeast of Las Vegas.
Kelly Redmond, a leading climate change expert based at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, died Thursday at age 64.