(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) HRUBY: Other experiments are conducted underground at the former Nevada test site. BRUMFIEL ... I was on a tour bus north of Las Vegas with a handful of other ...

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. Inside a top-secret US nuclear ...

The enchanting dunescape stretches over 43 miles (70 km) along the coast and over 30 miles (50 km) inland. Lençois translates ...

Fly Geyser, Nevada, U.S. Fly Geyser is located on Fly Ranch in the middle of the Nevada desert. | Credit: Ropelato Photography; EarthScapes via Getty Images What do you get if you cross human ...

The 3.7 magnitude earthquake hit near Mammoth, Wyoming, close to the ancient Norris Geyser Basin at about 6pm MST on Tuesday (January 28), prompting residents to report shaking. Earthquakes of ...

Later, when everyone needs a break from all the glitz and glamor, take a tour of some of the coolest parts of Nevada on the way to Lake Tahoe. When the family is ready to explore the wondrous nature ...

YELLOWSTONE NAT'L PARK, Wyo. - A magnitude 3.9 earthquake occurred near Norris Geyser Basin in Yellowstone National Park on January 28 at about 6:00 p.m. MST. The United States Geological Survey ...

As part of a planned 2,400-acre solar project southwest of Pahrump, developer Candela Renewables will temporarily relocate 114 adult desert tortoises — a species, listed as threatened under the ...

A bushfire in Victoria's west has destroyed the Little Desert Nature Lodge at Nhill and one home at Dimboola, while a second home may also have been impacted. Five new fires were started by ...

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 ...