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Perched in the Victor Valley region of the Mojave Desert, this San Bernardino County gem offers a lifestyle that feels like ...
The Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Art Museum sprawls across 10 acres of Mojave Desert, where discarded toilets become profound ...
However, light that leaves our star also contains UVC radiation, which has a shorter wavelength than UVA or UVB light and ...
Deserts aren’t just hot—they’re thermally extreme landscapes where physics, biology, and climate intersect. Discover why these sun-scorched places turn icy cold at night, how life adapts to survive, ...
Earth is hotter than it has been in 125,000 years, scientists say, and Las Vegas continues to break temperature records. The extreme heat claimed more than 500 lives in southern Nevada last year alone ...
We’ve been ringing the alarm bells in order to get attention, in order to get money and policy changes that we need before it’s too late." Scientists stunned by unexpected shifts in desert ecosystems ...
Students, arborists-in-training and UNLV staff dug holes circling a dog park Friday morning as part of the university’s “Urban Forestry Initiative.” The program is using a $5 million federal grant to ...
From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a vast alien-like installation of hundreds of thousand of mirrors pointed at three ...
A massive solar farm of two million panels in the Mojave Desert is heading for dormancy just 11 years after going into operation. The Ivanpah installation was once the largest project of its kind in ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — What was once the world’s largest solar power plant of its type appears headed for closure just 11 years after opening, under pressure from cheaper green ...
Meanwhile, environmentalists continue to blame the Mojave Desert plant for killing thousands of birds and tortoises. 11 years after a celebrated opening, massive solar plant faces a bleak future ...