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Nevada's Astronaut Training Ground Is An Ancient Volcanic Crater With A Surreal, Moon-Like Landscape
Take a road trip through Nevada to this moon-like crater used by NASA astronauts as a training ground to prepare them for the ...
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Nevada prisons director points to 4-mile fence, better staffing; inmate food issues persist
A high-profile inmate escape, the resignation of the prisons director, and reports that fences, doors and windows were ...
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Inside a top-secret US nuclear facility in the Nevada desert
A group of journalists were allowed to tour a weapons laboratory deep underground in Frenchman Flat, Nevada. NPR's science correspondent Geoff Brumfiel was among them.
Nevada’s state animal may face die-offs, relocation due to drought
With more than 200 days of no measurable rain in Las Vegas and counting, Southern Nevada’s beloved bighorn sheep are reaching ...
11 years after a celebrated opening, massive solar plant faces a bleak future in the Mojave Desert
What was once the largest solar power plant of its type in the world appears headed for closure just 11 years after opening.
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As solar farms sprout up in Southern Nevada, concern for desert tortoises grows
As solar energy farms continue to pop up across the Mojave Desert, some residents are being squeezed out of their homes: the ...
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Drought endangers Desert Bighorn Sheep, Nevada’s state animal
Absent intervention by state wildlife officials, Nevada’s state animal, the desert bighorn sheep, may see its herds thinned ...
Giant Solar Farm In Mojave Desert Could Close Just A Decade After Opening
A California power utility is seeking to end a contract early, leading to the closure of the world's largest solar power ...
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For 25th year, Mojave Max contest open to all Southern Nevada residents
Groundhog Day marks the start of Mojave Max watch. The desert tortoise mascot is Clark County's official prognosticator, but ...
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Inside a top-secret US nuclear facility in the Nevada desert
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) HRUBY: Other experiments are conducted underground at the former Nevada test site ... across this beautiful, empty desert landscape where the U.S. government ...
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Drought endangers desert bighorn sheep, Nevada’s state animal
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 ...
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Inside a top-secret US nuclear facility in the Nevada desert
A group of journalists were allowed to tour a weapons laboratory deep underground in Frenchman Flat, Nevada. NPR's science correspondent Geoff Brumfiel was among them.