Topic: environment

man sitting between burned trees.
Research | October 10, 2017

Economics researchers capitalize on the dynamics wildfire to prove infants’ proximity to smoke pollution while in utero affects birthweight.

A self-sufficient home sits in the desert.
Campus News | October 9, 2017

Voting for the Solar Decathlon People's Choice Award is open, and UNLV's team needs your support.

Single visitor looking at the Tested Ground museum exhibit
Arts and Culture | June 12, 2017

How to use the Barrick Museum’s new exhibit to talk to your children about the environment.

Solar panels in the Eldorado Valley
Research | May 25, 2017

Researchers investigate the environmental footprint of solar facilities to guide future design.

Jonathan Baker and colleagues examine stalagmite in a cave
Campus News | May 22, 2017

UNLV Ph.D. candidate’s research in Russia challenges widely held understanding of past climate history; study appears in latest issue of top journal Nature Geoscience.

Students planting with shovel
Business and Community | January 26, 2017

Students pitch in on a project to restore native vegetation around the drought-stricken Lake Mead. View the photo essay by UNLV photographer Josh Hawkins.

Lake Mead National Recreation Area
Business and Community | January 17, 2017

More than a dozen students will partner with the National Park Service and other groups on a restoration project to add native plants, protect shoreline, and boost wildlife.

Shahram Latifi
Research | December 8, 2016

UNLV researcher pioneers new applications for quick, efficient and secure data management.