The Nevada Independent

It’s a mild winter in Nevada. Here’s how that could end up hitting your pocketbook.

While Nevada is renowned for its lack of precipitation, there’s a hidden cost behind the seemingly endless streak of mild ...

Nevada state climatologist says Reno is experiencing one of the warmest starts to winter on record

The pattern mirrors last winter, when the Northern Nevada and Sierra regions also saw a slow start to the snow season ...
Reno Gazette-Journal

Nevada’s fall pattern turns active: Rain up north, breezy cooldown in the south

Nevada’s weather pattern is shifting this week as two separate systems move through the region — one targeting the north with weekend rain, wind and Sierra snow and another bringing light showers and ...

New tool will help manage one of Nevada's most critical freshwater sources

DRI, and the University of Wisconsin—Madison (UW-Madison) have developed the Nevada GDE Water Needs Explorer Tool. This new ...
Reno Gazette-Journal

A tribe in Nevada finally had funding for climate resilience. Then a grant was ripped away

Joseph Frank was one of the first firefighters to respond to a massive wildfire that broke out on the Walker River Reservation in June 2024. Temperatures that month were well above average, according ...
unr.edu

Sagebiel named to governor's climate change advisory committee

Gov. Jim Gibbons signed an executive order April 10 creating the Nevada Climate Change Advisory Committee and named its 13 members, including John Sagebiel, the University's environmental affairs ...
unr.edu

Why are meadows important to the climate?

When most people think of solutions to environmental degradation, meadows are not usually the first thing that comes to mind. But research by Ben Sullivan, a soil ecologist in the University of Nevada ...