Tag Archives: Patrick Donnelly

US advances review of Nevada lithium mine over endangered wildflower concerns

RENO, Nev. (AP) — The Biden administration has taken a key step in an expedited environmental review of what could be the third lithium mine in the United States. wild flower The Bureau of Land Management last week released more than 2,000 pages of documentation on its draft environmental impact statement for the Rhyolite Ridge… Read More »

Death Valley has become the picture of climate change

In California’s boom-and-bust climate, Death Valley has offered some of the strangest sights in the last few years. Some of the area’s perennial creosote bushes died during a severe drought that will negatively affect the region until 2022. Then, the remnants of Hurricane Hilary and torrential downpours from subsequent storms revived the annual wildflowers from… Read More »