Nevada Climate Change News
Stories in this feed are from newspapers in Nevada courtesy of Environmental Health News.
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.
Former President Bill Clinton says green energy can grow the nation’s economy.
Former President Bill Clinton on Wednesday pushed for retrofitting aging buildings to make them more energy efficient and promoted alternative sources of energy as a way to create jobs and grow the economy.
New wave of solar plants could worsen air quality.
Solar power is the green energy darling of the Southwest.But the most popular type of industrial solar technology has a dirty little secret: Many of these plants are not emission-free.
Wildfire danger increasing across U.S., federal official tells Reno audience.
A combination of forest restoration projects, creation of communities that can survive fire and aggressive fire fighting will be needed as wildfire danger increases across the country, the chief of the U.S. Forest Service said Tuesday.
Nevada businesses support clean-energy measure.
More than 300 Nevada businesses are backing climate and energy legislation in Congress that would create more than 4.5 million jobs and generate $280 billion in private investment, proponents of the bill said Thursday.
Heller concerned over memo on national monuments.
Rep. Dean Heller says he is worried about an Interior Department memo that calls for carving two national monuments out of parts of central and northern Nevada to protect American Indian cultural sites and habitat for sensitive wildlife.
Iraq war veterans visit Reno to demand action on climate change.
A warming climate and continuing dependence on foreign oil increasingly are putting America's security at risk, requiring prompt political action, a group of veterans visiting Reno said Tuesday.
Reid pledges to fight for geothermal funds.
Sen. Harry Reid said Thursday the Senate will debate a sweeping climate change bill this spring, and he will use it as a vehicle to seek more federal research dollars and more generous tax credits for geothermal development.