The National Park Service expects to spend about $25 million to move marinas and extend boat launch ramps if Lake Mead continues to shrink in the coming years, according to a new low-water plan released Thursday.
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Dead trees still mark the path of one of the largest wildfires to strike Spring Mountains National Recreation Area. But bushes and shrubs also are starting to color the almost 19,000 acres of federal land that remain closed to the public.
The National Atomic Testing Museum will host an Asteroid Day lecture on the explosion that many scientists believe rocked the area roughly 382 million years ago and left a crater up to 93 miles wide.
There’s a growing distrust of driverless vehicles, according to a AAA national survey set for release Tuesday.
Nuclear scientist for Los Alamos National Laboratory helped plan more than 300 nuclear explosions beneath the desert northwest of Las Vegas beginning in the 1960s.
Despite worsening conditions in the mountains that feed the Colorado River, forecasters still expect the reservoir east of Las Vegas to contain just enough water by the end of the year to avoid a first-ever federal shortage declaration.
An international network of amateur weather trackers is looking for observant — and patient — local residents to measure rainfall in America’s driest city.
Periods of below-average snowpack have become increasing common in some Western mountain ranges, including some caused by “wet” drought that results when mountain areas usually blanketed with snow get rain instead.
The Kilopower project, currently undergoing testing at the Nevada National Security Site, aims to develop a small, safe and reliable source of electricity for extended stays on the red planet or unmanned scientific missions in deep space.
A monthly report by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation offers a slightly sunnier outlook for the reservoir than it did in December, though both projections say the lake east of Las Vegas will finish the year about 5 feet lower than it is now.