Nevada Climate Change News
Stories in this feed are from newspapers in Nevada courtesy of Environmental Health News.
Scientists to study effects of climate warming on Truckee River.
Scientists are beginning new research into how a warming climate could affect water supplies and flooding along the Truckee River, the waterway that serves as one of the region's central natural features and the source of most of its water.
Nevada desert provides answers.
Nevada has a bright spot in the high desert and it's not another solar energy project. Instead, it's a place to explore the solar system as well as probe suspect gases that scientists believe are causing climate change.
Fact checker: Don't see consensus on global warming? Look past Fox News.
A study determined that generally, Americans became more informed if they consumed more news – with one major exception. The study found that the more people watched Fox News, the less informed they became.
Salazar: Colorado River issue could push conservatives to face climate change.
Could Western conservatives push the GOP toward adopting a more friendly stance on climate change? Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar certainly seems to think so.
Everyone's a scientist.
A website that claims to feature the signatures of 31,487 scientists who are skeptics about global warming includes the names of 346 Nevadans—though it appears that few if any of them are climate scientists.
Antarctic sub to explore Tahoe.
Despite what Polar Plunge participants may tell you, Lake Tahoe is not the Antarctic. But it will pretend to be in a little more than two months. A 24-foot submarine built to probe melting near the base of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is to take its maiden voyage in the lake at the end of March.
Warming threatens water supply.
A new report concerning a warming climate's impact on Lake Tahoe comes with some worrying predictions, including that the Reno area could be cut off from its primary water supply for up to 20 years at a time.
Official: Nevada wildfires behave differently than 10 years ago.
With a warming climate making for longer fire seasons and more intense wildfires, an ongoing effort to revamp the nation’s firefighting strategy is gaining increasing importance, the chief of the U.S. Forest Service said.
Wet winter set stage for big fire threat.
Fires in the Southwest’s mountains and deserts have increased in occurrence and intensity over the past 50 years, according to a study published in Science magazine in 2006. That study, led by scientists from the University of California at Merced, blamed man-made changes to the landscape and climate change.
Out with the old and in with the green retrofit.
It was more than just a little bit of elbow grease that transformed a former asbestos-laden building into what is now considered a symbol of energy efficiency — and an example of what’s to come nationwide.