To better understand the impact of climate change on the mountains, a team from the University of California, Davis, trekked ...

Using blindfolds, sedation and helicopters, they lifted dozens of sheep and placed them in a trailer for transport to a ...

In 1963, the U.S. detonated a nuclear bomb deep beneath the Nevada desert. Project Shoal was designed to test what a nuclear explosion looked like in a seismically active area. The goal was not ...

Snow crunches underfoot. The air is thin, sharp and silent. Mountains rise like walls on all sides, their peaks dusted white even in summer. A river cuts through a wide, open valley. Nothing about ...

Nothing on the surface of this scrubby expanse of western Nevada desert, overlooked by towering, craggy mountains, gives even a hint of what lies beneath. But a few thousand feet underground is a ...

The last decade has been the hottest decade in human history.  Driven by drought and extreme winds, a massive fire burned its ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) - Saguaro National Park is expanding once again, thanks to a new acquisition by the Trust for Public Land (TPL) in partnership with the National Park Service. This move adds 20 ...

BEATTY, Nev. - A brothel in a Nevada desert town has hired the state's first male prostitute, a muscular college dropout who abandoned a brief stint as a porn actor in Los Angeles to become the only ...

Industry Insight from Ethical Corporation Magazine, a part of Thomson Reuters. Average mid-size data centre uses 1.4 million litres of water daily for cooling Global water demand will outstrip supply ...

Rising temperatures in the UK will become "the new normal", a leading government climate adviser has warned, as she called for more to be done to prepare for the impacts of climate change. It comes as ...

As the beginning of the Atomic Age fades into history, archaeologists work to document a time of uncertainty and experimentation Wearing protective goggles, observers from Canada and Britain watch MET ...