50% Chance Lake Mead Will Be Dry By 2021, Models S
Saturday, February 16th, 2008It defies logic to build a city in the middle of the desert, but Lake Mead makes Las Vegas possible. This was an interesting article.
Archive for the ‘Beyond Vegas’ Category
Getting Off the Strip - Las Vegas Springs Preserve
Wednesday, June 13th, 2007Sick of the slots? Tired of the tables? After nearly ten years of development, Las Vegas
’ Springs Preserve, a 180-acre plethora of botanical gardens, trails, museums and galleries, has just opened as an off-the-Strip tourist experience.
NYT Skywalk Review: Great Space, Glass Floor-Through, Canyon Views
Monday, May 21st, 2007A visitor to these stark and imposing lands of the Hualapai Indians on the western rim of the Grand Canyon knows what sensation is being promised at the journey
’s climax. After driving for a half-hour over bone-jolting dirt roads some 120 miles from Las Vegas, you take a shuttle bus from the parking lot, not far from where helicopters are landing,
Vandals Desecrate Las Vegas Cultural Site
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007One of the valley’s most important cultural sites is under assault by unknown vandals.The place is known as Little Red Rocks and it’s home to petroglyphs that date back thousands of years.
Yucca Mountain Will Be The Most Radioactive Place On Earth
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007A mine not far from Las Vegas is about to become the most radioactive place on Earth.
Nevada mushroom cloud blast plan abandoned
Monday, March 19th, 2007The Pentagon has abandoned plans for a massive test explosion in the Nevada desert, the first time a mushroom cloud would have been seen near Las Vegas since a nuclear test in the 1960s, officials said on Thursday.
Area 51 Exposed!
Monday, March 19th, 2007Las Vegas’ George Knapp investigates, shows that the Joint Terrorism Task Force and the FBI are involved at the secret base.