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.
The U.S. Department of the Interior announced today that it will give Clark County over $75 million in funding for three Las Vegas-area recreational facilities and an additional $3.5 million to support the county’s Multi-Species Habitat Conservation Plan.
Tom Brundy, an alfalfa grower in California's Imperial Valley, thinks farmers reliant on the shrinking Colorado River can do more to save water and use it more efficiently. That's why ...
A federal judge has sided again with the Biden administration and a Canadian-based mining company in a fight with environmentalists and tribal leaders trying to block a huge lithium mine in Nevada near ...
Clark County declared a fuel emergency late Friday after a leak was discovered in a pipeline that transports fuel from California to Las Vegas. "Tonight, I am declaring a state of emergency for the fuel pipeline leak impacting ...
Snowshoe and cross-country ski enthusiasts routinely feed the tiny mountain chickadees high above the north shore of the alpine lake on the California-Nevada border.
A federal judge has ordered the government to revisit part of its environmental review of a lithium mine planned in Nevada but denied opponents' effort to block the project in a ruling the developer ...
Five days after the U.S. Energy Department announced a $700 million conditional loan to an Australian mining company pursuing a lithium project in Nevada, federal land managers cited ....
A national conservation advocacy group announced today plans to sue the federal government for failing to preserve the habitat of an endangered flower species that grows on a small swath of land in ...
Just days after U.S. wildlife officials declared a Nevada wildflower endangered at the site of a proposed lithium mine, federal land managers are initiating a review of the latest project plans the ...
U.S. wildlife officials declared a Nevada wildflower endangered on Wednesday at the only place it's known to exist — on a high-desert ridge where a lithium mine is planned to help meet ...
