Topic: environment

Rose Shillito
People | October 17, 2018

Scholarship fuels research that could save communities from floods.

Shawn McCoy posing with tree
Research | August 27, 2018

Demand for real estate rebounds in high-risk areas within one to two years of a wildfire, UNLV study finds. Here’s what the research may mean for homeowners in California and beyond.

UNLV geoscientist Eugene Smith
Research | March 13, 2018

How a vacation in South Africa, a one-of-its-kind UNLV lab, and pieces of volcanic glass smaller than a grain of salt changed a long-held view of human history.

Emma Frances Bloomfield
Research | October 18, 2017

Four stumbling blocks impede clear communication on climate change.

landscape view
Campus News | October 17, 2017

UNLV is ideally placed to assist — and provide — leaders to deal with the challenges of the major urban center that is Las Vegas.

man sitting between burned trees.
Research | October 10, 2017

Economics researchers capitalize on the dynamics wildfire to prove infants’ proximity to smoke pollution while in utero affects birthweight.

A self-sufficient home sits in the desert.
Campus News | October 9, 2017

Voting for the Solar Decathlon People's Choice Award is open, and UNLV's team needs your support.