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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's Hidden Desert Sinkhole Holds Ancient Marvels And Is Home To The World's Rarest Fish
In this Nevada wildlife refuge area, discover a mysterious geothermal pool that houses the world's rarest fish and extends ...
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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 ...
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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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.
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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 ...