Snow came down on California’s Sierra Nevada mountain range on Thursday morning, November 20, with as much as a foot of accumulation expected in higher elevations, the National Weather Service (NWS) ...

California's Sierra Nevada mountains are the state's largest mountain range, full of outdoor adventure and picturesque destinations. Running 400 miles from north to south, and varying between 50 and ...

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California wildlife officials are now allowing mountain lions to be killed to protect endangered bighorn sheep, changing a ...

WASHINGTON — Snow cover in the Sierra Nevada is expected to shrink overall as the climate warms, but avalanche frequency could remain the same or even increase at high elevations. That’s bad news for ...

RENO, Nev. (News 4 & Fox 11) — Forecasting the weather in Nevada presents unique challenges due to the state's distinctive geography and limited resources, according to experts. Dawn Johnson, a ...

Photos of the East Lyell glacier in Yosemite National Park. Top: September 1883 (Israel Russell / U.S. Geological Survey); Bottom: September 2022 (Greg Stock / National Park Service) (CN) — The ...

When people think of Nevada, images of the Las Vegas Strip and flashy casinos may come to mind. Lush farmland and tree-lined streets are rarely mentioned in the same breath as the "the Silver State." ...

Hugh Safford is calling out into the woods for a tree. That’s normal enough for a forest ecologist, but the tree he’s searching for — the Jeffrey pine — was not, until recently, expected to live ...