Desert summers are getting more severe, and Las Vegas’ urban planning isn’t doing it any favors. Sprawl across the valley ensures that heat isn’t felt equally in every neighborhood.
LAS VEGAS — In a city where housing costs are rising like ... wary of the environmental costs of creating more urban sprawl. Better to maximize the areas that are already available, he said, including ...
One of the leading threats to the wildflower is urban sprawl outside Las Vegas. The Clark County lands bill, proposed by Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, (D-Nev.), would allow tens of thousands of acres ...
one community in particular — east Las Vegas — swelters more than other neighborhoods because of urban heat island effects. Heat is trapped in concrete and asphalt during the day and then ...
These Photos Show How Urban Growth Fuels Extreme Heat A massive heat dome across the American Southwest is driving temperatures in Phoenix and Las Vegas to record triple-digit highs.
When you're on the ground, it's pretty easy to believe that the sprawl of Las Vegas ... or heading to Vegas as part of a wider road trip, you realize that the city is an urban island in a vast ...
“Now only the Endangered Species Act can save this beautiful wildflower from destruction by mining and urban sprawl. It must be protected before it is too late.” In 2001 the Las Vegas bearpoppy was ...
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