The key to the United States’ transition away from fossil fuels might lie in the ground of the Silver State. Lithium, used in electric vehicle batteries, abounds in Nevada’s abundant federal ...

The Sierra Nevada wring moisture from winter storms that develop over the Pacific and travel west with the jet stream, while the Rocky Mountains shield the state from any moisture moving up from the ...

A public service department within the Department of Geography at the University of Nevada, Reno, the Nevada State Climate Office (NSCO) provides timely, accurate and relevant information and ...

The project’s remnants are protected by the state park today. “It opened a whole new world for me, and I said, ‘We have got to save this,” Mortenson said. Soon, scientists, the Nevada ...