Six Wood River players earned recognition on the 2026 Great Basin Conference Softball All-Conference Teams. Junior Paityn Nelson led the way with a first-team selection at third base. Senior Kenley ...

The Great Basin includes most of Nevada, the western half of Utah, part of eastern California, and southeastern Oregon. It is named the “Great Basin” because none of the water within it drains out to ...

The oldest tree species is the Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva). The oldest tree of the species is named Methuselah and is more than 4,800 years old. The longevity of the Great Basin ...

62 Parks Traveler started with a simple goal: to visit every U.S. national park in one year. Avid backpacker and public-lands nerd Emily Pennington saved up, built out a tiny van to travel and live in ...

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Peer into eternity by getting as far away as possible from human civilization in eastern Nevada's Great Basin National Park.

A new assessment from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) indicates that geothermal energy resources in the Great Basin region — spanning Nevada and parts of California, Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah ...

Baker is a tiny town in Nevada with a population of 41. It’s the last stop on America’s loneliest road, before entering Utah, and the gateway to Great Basin National Park, Nevada’s only national park.

The water that Nevada pumps from the ground has always been hard for scientists to track. It turns out all they had to do was measure it from outer space. Using measures of gravity from NASA ...

A swath of the western United States stretching from Nevada and Utah into Montana and Wyoming faces the threat of scattered ...

Water pressure in the Great Artesian Basin is recovering as more bores are capped, according to new research unveiled by the University of Queensland. Uncontrolled water flow from bores and open earth ...