For the third time in a decade, federal wildlife officials are contemplating whether the bi-state sage grouse deserves protection under the Endangered Species Act. Conservationists blame “political gamesmanship” for leaving the bird in regulatory limbo since 2013. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said ...
Last year, the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the Rosemont copper mine in Arizona because the company couldn’t prove it had mineral rights on adjacent land where it planned to dispose of the rock waste ...
Ozone levels in the Las Vegas area have improved over the last three years, but other pollution has gotten worse, according to the American Lung Association. Still, Las Vegas received a ...
By Mead Gruver and Brittany Peterson, Associated Press
Garrett Cammans and his brothers sometimes don't talk about their toughest moments on the job in the cloud seeding business, like the time when one of them got stuck in deep mountain snow and had ...
The tiny rain-fed wildflowers, no bigger than a few inches, are so vivid and abundant across California this year that their hues of purple and yellow look like paint swatches from space. From the mist-shrouded San Francisco Bay area to the deserts of Arizona near the Mexican border, there are flashes of color popping up after ...
County commissioners have rescinded an energy company's permit to drill exploratory wells for a geothermal project in the Nevada desert near the site of the annual Burning Man counterculture ...
The heavy snow blanketing the Rocky Mountains offers some limited relief as water managers representing seven states and the federal government continue to weigh options for cutting ...
Wildfires, vehicle pollution and high temperatures this summer could generate enough ozone gas to sicken children, elderly people and anyone with respiratory or cardiac conditions while inducing wheezing and coughing in the relatively healthy ...
By Gabe Stern, Associated Press/Report for America
Marty Plaskett upgraded his farming equipment and spent $60,000 on new sprinklers to conserve water, even before the rural Nevada valley where he farms alfalfa began more strictly managing groundwater. Now, Plaskett is weighing another adjustment: selling off part of his legal right to ...
The Clark County Division of Air Quality issued today a seasonal wildfire smoke and ground-level ozone pollution advisory as the summer months approach.
In an unusual move that could pit two Biden administration agencies against each other, the developer of a planned Nevada geothermal power plant says it intends to sue U.S wildlife officials to overturn the endangered ...
Lake Mead National Recreation Area is planning a prescribed burn near Boulder Beach and the Nevada Department of Wildlife Lake Mead Fish Hatchery next week, according to a National Park Service news release.
Minutes after President Joe Biden confirmed the designation Tuesday of Avi Kwa Ame National Monument, which protects a culturally and ecologically significant swath of land that some area tribes consider their sacred cradle of humanity from development, Gov. Joe Lombardo issued a statement calling the monument status an economically unsound “federal confiscation” taken without consulting his office.
Under the new protections, access to hunting, camping and other recreational activities can continue. The land, however, cannot be used for development or mining operations.
