They met for less than a minute amid the chaos of Oct. 1, and neither remembers it very well. But Vanessa Esquivel said Kody Robertson did more than enough in a few short seconds to earn the rank of honorary uncle to her newborn son.
Henry Brean
Reporter: Environment
Email: hbrean@reviewjournal.com
Phone: (702) 383-0350
Henry Brean writes about water and the environment for the Review-Journal, where he has worked since 2003. A native of Tucson, Arizona, he earned his journalism degree from the University of Missouri before returning to the desert as a reporter and editor for the Pahrump Valley Times.
Women who were pregnant at the Route 91 Harvest festival have been welcoming the newest survivors into the world.
The Nevada Department of Wildlife’s new reality show is sort of like “The Real Housewives of Reno,” only with feathers.
A team of volunteers used rakes and water to erase tire tracks that have scarred Racetrack Playa in Death Valley National Park since someone illegally drove across the dry lake bed in 2016.
Swedish developer’s proposal to build as many as 220 wind turbines across 22 miles along the Nevada-California border near Searchlight comes less than a year after plans were dropped for a controversial wind farm in the same area. .
The Moapa dace population was tallied at 1,138 adult fish in the February count at its habitat in the warm springs and streams that form the headwaters of the Muddy River, 60 miles northeast of Las Vegas.
State and county officials plan to begin work April 2 to back-fill several dozen abandoned mine shafts peppering the future park site on county-owned land west of Fort Apache and Warm Springs roads.
More than 32,000 people submitted comments in opposition to the Air Force’s plan to expand its training range north of Las Vegas at the expense of the Desert National Wildlife Refuge.
The Friends of the Arizona Joshua Tree Forest will mark the holiday on March 17 with a free breakfast in Meadview, Arizona, followed by bird watching and nature walks in the nearby Grapevine Mesa Joshua Tree Forest.
Pat Dingle capped his career as a North Las Vegas police detective by helping to catch a serial killer, and then he operated what everyone knew as the Las Vegas zoo on Rancho Drive for more than three decades.
An international network of amateur weather trackers is looking for observant — and patient — local residents to measure rainfall in America’s driest city.
With almost 7.9 million visitors in 2017, Lake Mead recorded its highest visitor total since 2003, helping propel the National Park Service to its second busiest year on record, according to statistics just released by the agency.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Monday that it is “delisting” the Eureka Valley evening-primrose and upgrading the status of Eureka dune grass from endangered to the less-imperiled threatened status.
A team of researchers has come up with an innovative way to determine exactly where the trees live and where they might live in the future, but it requires satellite observations and lots of boots on the ground.
Starting in early April, crews will begin back-filling at least 40 mine shafts at a long-abandoned gypsum mine on county-owned land near Fort Apache and Warm Springs roads.