In The News: Department of Geoscience
On a trip to Great Basin National Park, UNLV geoscience professor Matt Lachniet says that rainfall many millennia ago formed lakes in the desolate basins lining this strip of rural highway. Between the towns of Pioche and Panaca, we stop at Cathedral Gorge, where a multimillion-year dance of erosion and tectonics forged a slender canyon fringed with clay-colored spires.
Half a dozen seismic faults along the Nevada-California border — including two within 60 miles of Reno and one about 100 miles from Las Vegas — appear primed to unleash a moderate to major earthquake, according to a new study.
Conservationists and other campaigners are urging President Obama to designate 1.7 million acres of the Canyon watershed a national monument before he leaves office
Which public agencies are keeping an eye on asbestos fibers generated by a massive highway project? The I-11 Bypass is being built right through the heart of natural asbestos fields in southern Nevada, but it's not always clear which government entities should be monitoring potential health risks.
Nevada has recently experienced something called an earthquake swarm. An expert says the phenomenon may signal there's something much bigger on the horizon.
The Las Vegas Valley Water District temporarily fixed the residential roadway that left one woman and her children stuck after driving into a sinkhole on Monday.
The Friends of Gold Butte Speaker Series in Mesquite will open a new year on Wednesday night.
Nevada's Department of Health and Human Services might be facing tough questions once the governor learns about the content of their internal emails.
UNLV paleontologists excavated a mammoth tusk and molar off U.S. 95 in an area not previously known to have fossils.
Understanding the world as it was 5,000 years ago just may provide some answers about the world today.
To annex or not to annex, that's the question being considered by the City of Henderson as it studies a big plot of land in the Eldorado Valley.