Hot springs such as Steamboat Hot Springs in south Reno, bubbling up after decades of inactivity, could provide hints about the possibility of life on other planets.

Nearly a decade in the making, visual artist Todd Gilens’ Reno sidewalk poem explores how the Truckee River intersects with an urban landscape.

Supporters of the project argue that pumped storage is the cheapest and most reliable way to provide the electricity storage needed for the clean energy transition and will help stimulate a rural community’s economy. 

Implementation of a new state late has led to confusion over which agency is standing up a septic conversion program in Southern Nevada and how much of the work residents will have to pay.

Nevada Department of Agriculture Director J.J. Goicoechea talks with The Indy about Northern Nevada's Virginia Range and why former assemblyman Jim Wheeler was hired to oversee its horses.

Nevada's farmers are aging, the number of small-to-medium-sized growers is declining and farmland in the state is being developed into industrial spaces and housing.

Rural utilities that rely on hydropower generated by the dams question the availability and costs for alternative sources for electricity.

For decades, Nevada's orchids have largely gone unstudied. Desert Research Institute scientists are changing that.

A billionaire landowner is proposing a land transfer with the federal government that would consolidate hundreds of thousands of Elko County acres, concerning public land users.

Public and private land managers are realizing beavers are a critical component to healthy riparian ecosystems in Nevada. Once considered nuisances, the rodents have many ecological benefits - but they can still cause problems.

Claiming the federal government violated its own provisions on how to manage wild horses and burros, two Nevada ranches are suing the Bureau of Land Management over its failure to remove an excess of wild horses from central Nevada.

Two of Nevada’s leading wildfire experts — Tim Brown, director of the Western Regional Climate Center at the Desert Research Institute, and Christina Restaino, director of the Living With Fire program at UNR — offer insight into why wildfires have gotten so bad, their hidden costs and the mitigation efforts that are needed from local up to federal levels.

The state plans to issue $25 million in grants to retire groundwater rights in places where use exceeds what is sustainable.

One of nature’s most spectacular shows, a solar eclipse, will pass over Nevada Saturday morning, letting tens of thousands of Nevadans view the sun as a ‘ring of fire’ around the moon.

A multiyear battle over whether Southern Nevadans should pay for natural disaster protection work in Northern Nevada raises an increasingly pressing public policy question: Are natural disasters statewide or local issues?

Tamzen Stringham, a professor at UNR’s Department of Agriculture, Nutrition and Veterinary Sciences who has studied Nevada’s rangelands for more than 15 years and the Great Basin for three decades, weighs in on legacy grazing, cheatgrass and the surprising number of pinyon and juniper trees in Nevada.

Feinstein, along with the late Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), were longtime partners in the fight to preserve Tahoe. She helped create the inaugural Tahoe Summit in 1997, and attended subsequent summits for over 25 years.

Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe leaders said a new project, reopening 65 miles of the Truckee River, could aid recovery of the cui-ui and Lahontan cutthroat trout.

The people dealing with the fallout of the nuclear testing in Nevada got a reminder — they only had a year left to apply for compensation for health ailments they believe could be linked to the bombs.

Judge: Water regulators did not overstep in rejecting the company’s paperwork after discovering a conflict in the chain of title for water rights it bought in 2020.