A winter storm will move through the Great Basin and the Desert Southwest over the weekend and early next week. This storm ...

Nevada's only designated National Park lies in the rugged and remote Great Basin of Northern Nevada. Its remoteness grea ...

In the scorching desert of Peru’s Pisco Basin, a major fossil discovery has been made. Paleontologists have unearthed the ...

The nearly-complete Cosmopolitodus Hastalis fossil was found some 235 km south of Lima in Peru's Pisco basin, a hot, desert ...

“The Tecopa bird’s beak is a precious symbol of the vibrancy of desert wetlands, thriving in harsh conditions that many other organisms can’t endure,” said Patrick Donnelly, Great Basin director at ...

"There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain ...

Dotting the vast, arid expanses of the Great Basin and Mojave deserts are precious springs housing ... in fact help make life possible for countless other species sharing their desert-oasis homes, ...

The Department of Interior has announced a two-year pause on new mining claims near Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge.

Paleontologists in Peru have discovered a 9-million-year-old fossil of Cosmopolitodus Hastalis, a relative of the great white ...

Predicted probability of arsenic ≥5 μg/L in alluvial aquifers of the western Great Basin, including (a) mean probability of arsenic ≥5 μg/L, (b) 95% confidence upper bound, and (c ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Domestic livestock grazing is the dominant land use on much of the current range inhabited by greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus ...