The hot, briny water far beneath Nevada’s public lands may be an indispensable solution to the climate crisis. Geothermal plants, where hot water is pumped from the ground and later injected ...

The Center for Biological Diversity and geothermal developer Ormat reached a legal agreement ... In April the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service took the extraordinary step of giving the rare Nevada toad ...

Dixie Meadows, a verdant desert oasis formed by springs in central Nevada, is an enormous wetland ecosystem and a sacred site for the Tribe. It is also home to the Dixie Valley toad, found nowhere ...

Most of those sites are in the West or Hawaii — California produces more overall geothermal power than any other state, while Nevada generates the highest percentage of electricity from geothermal.