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Nevada Helicopter Crash Kills Pilot, 4 Passengers

AP | CRISTINA SILVA | Posted 02.06.2012

Read More: Video, Helicopter Crash, Sundance Helicopters, Lake Mead, Andrew Munoz, Hoover Dam, Las Vegas Strip, River Mountains, Travel News

LAS VEGAS — A helicopter taking people on a luxury sunset tour of the Las Vegas Strip and Hoover Dam crashed into a mountainside Wednesday, kill...

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A Huffington Post Guide To Family Vacations In Nevada

The Huffington Post | Shawn Lealos | Posted 10.19.2011

Read More: Shark Reef Aquarium, Las Vegas Travel, Video, Family Travel Guides, Lied Discovery Children?S Museum, Lake Mead, Madame Tussauds Las Vegas, Nevada Travel, Hoover Dam, Themed Guides, Las Vegas, Siegfried & Roy's Secret Garden, Travel News

Family vacations in Nevada can be rewarding experiences or absolute disasters — it all depends on pre-trip homework. To make planning easier, we've ...

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The Grand Canyon And Beyond: Our Guide To Arizona Family Vacations

The Huffington Post | Cathleen Shaffer | Posted 10.04.2011

Read More: Grand Canyon, Video, Stuffington Bear Factory, Family Travel Guides, Heard Museum, Sonoran Desert, Lake Mead, Themed Guides, Deer Valley Rock Art Center, London-Bridge, Travel News

Family vacations in Arizona can be rewarding experiences or absolute disasters -- it all depends on pretrip homework. To make planning easier, we've d...

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Lake Mead Water Level Reaches Alarming Threshold

The New York Times | Felicity Barringer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nevada, Sonoran Desert, Water Management, Lake Mead, Western Water Rights, Lake Powell, Colorado River, Arizona, Pheonix, Las Vegas, Denver News

LAKE MEAD NATIONAL RECREATION AREA, Nev. -- A once-unthinkable day is looming on the Colorado River...

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Global Warming, Drought and the Grim Reaper

Dr. Reese Halter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Southern Rocky Mountains, Dr. Reese Halter, Conservation, Mayans, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Nevada, Drought, La Nina, Water, Lake Mead, Climate Change, Wildfires, Colorado River, Global Warming, Snowpack, Water Crisis, Weather Patterns, El Nino, Green News
Dr. Reese Halter

Welcome to a drier world. And it's not just the southern half of the U.S. that's feeling the bite.

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In the West, Climate and Energy Policy Is Water Policy

Dan Grossman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drought, Lake Mead, Brian Schweitzer, Renewable Energy, Clean Air-Clean Jobs Act, Climate Change, Clean Energy, Lake Powell, Denver News
Dan Grossman

The extended droughts of the past may become the norm of the future. So what should we do about this bleak situation?

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Red Snow Warning: The End of Welfare Water and the Drying of the West

Chip Ward | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Water-Policy, Lake Powell, Lake Mead, Water, Climate Change, Hoover Dam, Colorado River, Green News
Chip Ward

We are now dangerously close to the limits of what the Colorado River can provide, even in the very best of weather scenarios, and the weather is being neither so friendly nor cooperative these days.

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Exploring the Grand Canyon: Only the Brave and Hardy

Kate Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Exploring the West, Grand Canyon, Lake Powell, John Wesley Powell, Lake Mead, Grand Canyon Rapids, Grand Canyon Hiking, Politics News
Kate Kelly

One hundred and forty years ago this summer, a one-armed Civil War veteran, John Wesley Powell (1834-1902), led the first full exploration of the Grand Canyon.

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