With a federal push for years to mine more lithium for electric batteries — one of many efforts to reverse human-caused ...

The Air Force has been seeking to expand its Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR) bombing range for several years, proposing to take over 1.1 million acres of the adjacent Desert National Wildlife ...

LAS VEGAS— Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) introduced legislation today to expand the U.S. Air Force’s Nevada Test and Training Range into the Desert National Wildlife Refuge, but the bill offers ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that the Tecopa bird’s beak, a rare wildflower found in the desert ... from Nevada’s Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge to Tecopa, California.

The federal government has proposed a two-year pause on new mining claims on thousands of acres of public land in Nye County.

Desert Bighorn Sheep at Lake Mead National Recreation Area. (Photo: National Park Service) Absent intervention by state wildlife officials, Nevada’s state animal, the desert bighorn sheep, may see its ...

Absent intervention by state wildlife officials, Nevada’s state animal, the desert bighorn sheep, may see its herds thinned by starvation because of drought. “Over the course of the last month ...

The U.S. Interior Department has halted new mining claims on 308,890 acres in Nevada to protect the environment.

(Photo by Patrick Donnelly/Center for Biological Diversity) After an intense local campaign to protect a treasured wildlife refuge in the Amargosa Desert the federal government has proposed a ... its ...

(FOX5) — The Department of Interior has announced a two-year pause on new mining claims near Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge ... crown jewel of the Mojave Desert and mining pollution ...