About 100 miles outside Las Vegas, deep in a remote patch of desert, is a $19 billion hole in the ground. That's how much it has cost to fight over and build a five-mile test tunnel under Yucca ...

Yuccas are a type of plant with pointed leaves native to parts of southern North America. Indigenous people have used yucca for centuries for its health effects and material properties. There are many ...

A renewed push to bury the nation’s most dangerous nuclear waste northwest of Las Vegas could hinge on competing scientific theories about the hazards of nearby volcanoes. If federal regulators ...

A look at the attempt to establish Yucca Mountain in Nevada as a site for a nuclear waste repository. Yucca Mountain is located approximately 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Congress passes Nuclear ...

Democrats seized on the hot-button issue, accusing Republican Sam Brown of wanting to turn Nevada into the “nation’s dumping ground for toxic waste.” Recently surfaced comments from a Republican ...

As with much policy-setting in the Trump administration, a single tweet from the president on February 6 appeared to reverse a previous stance. The message about Yucca Mountain, the nation’s proposed ...

Much of the world of living things seems split into two groups: the generalists and the specialists. Generalists – honeybees, weeds, humans – can exploit a variety of habitats. Specialists zero in on ...