Science news articles about 'Sierra Nevada range'

... along the 400-mile range between Nevada and CaliforniaThe Sierra Nevada range in the US grows about half an inch in elevation every 10 years, according to scientists ...

... gone. Kavanaugh's first stop on his DNA mission was Sonora Pass in the Sierra Nevada range. In 1981, he had described a new species from the site, which he named Nebria ...

... to compare species diversity over a period of dramatic change in the landscape. The Rocky Mountains and Sierra Nevada ranges formed in the West, while there were dramatic ...

... Jennifer Burt's study of seven winter resorts in California and Nevada's northern Sierra Nevada range found that ski slope grading ...

... solar panels on 80 square miles of dry lake bed and flatlands east of the Sierra Nevada range has run into a daunting problem: extremely ...

... epidemic swept through the basins of the Sierra Nevada range. "It's really rare to be able to study ... . Unfortunately, it is a study that can't be duplicated, at least not in the Sierra Nevada. Frog populations there have been devastated by chytrid ...

... -melting smile, shattered the relative calm in Valley Springs, a town on the slope of the Sierra Nevada range that neig ...