In The News: Department of Geoscience
A global shortage in semiconductor chips has been wreaking havoc on diverse sectors, including the tech, automotive, consumer electronics industries, and everything in between.
The drought in the southwestern U.S. isn't new - it's actually a couple of decades old now.
Drought, wildfires, declining water supplies, threats to human health made even more dangerous by urban design flaws and socioeconomic inequities — the climate crisis has already hit the Southwest hard. And it’s only going to get worse.
On Monday, the US government announced a water shortage for the first time in the Colorado River, in the southwest of the country. Western North America has been ravaged by drought and wildfires for months.
The drought in the southwestern U.S. isn’t new - it’s actually a couple of decades old now.
Today, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV), a member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, released the following statement applauding the National Science Foundation (NSF) for awarding a grant totaling $349,710 to the University of Nevada Las Vegas to increase STEM education opportunities for underrepresented students in geoscience – the study of Earth.
A multi-decade drought has left Lake Mead and Lake Powell with record low water levels.
At more than 420 parts per million (ppm) in May, scientists measured the highest levels of carbon in the atmosphere since they started taking direct measurements 63 years ago at Hawaii's Mauna Loa Observatory.
UNLV science student Joseph Kolibar grew up in urban Las Vegas and never contemplated that mining could be a career option until he got a firsthand glimpse into the industry this summer.
The largest reservoir in the US has fallen to the lowest level in history.
Climate and business experts say tough decisions must be made in the next few months, as the Western drought intensifies and water resources dry up.
Lake Mead, the reservoir in Nevada created by Hoover Dam, has sunk to its lowest level ever, underscoring the gravity of the extreme drought across the US west.