The Nevada desert once scarred by mushroom clouds now shelters a surprisingly rich web of life, with scientists documenting roughly 1,500 plant and animal species inside the former nuclear proving ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The ostensibly barren Mojave Desert is in fact teeming with plants and animals, including a rare species known as the threecorner ...

Las Vegas — The strange monolith looks like it could have come from another world. Jutting out of the rocks in a remote mountain range near Las Vegas, the glimmering rectangular prism's reflective ...

LAS VEGAS — The strange monolith looks like it could have come from another world. Jutting out of the rocks in a remote mountain range near Las Vegas, the glimmering rectangular prism's reflective ...

GARDNERVILLE, Nev. (AP) — A botanist gently strokes the pollen of endangered wildflowers with a paintbrush as she tries to reenact nature inside a small greenhouse in the shadow of the Sierra Nevada.

The research, published late November in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, was led by DRI ecologist Tiffany Pereira. She and her team monitored the Gemini Solar Project for a rare plant called ...

The water beneath our feet is vanishing, putting people, plants and animals at risk in the Nevada desert. An August study published in the academic journal Hydrological Processes uses publicly ...

The lean, deeply tanned man with a white beard and bright blue eyes has a request before we sit down.

For the first time, every plant species in the state of Nevada can be found in a single list. Published last month, “Nevada Vascular Plants: An Annotated Checklist of the State’s Botanical Diversity” ...

The strange monolith looks like it could have come from another world. Jutting out of the rocks in a remote mountain range near Las Vegas, the glimmering rectangular prism's reflective surface ...