Yuccas are a type of plant with pointed leaves native to parts of southern North America. Indigenous people have used yucca for centuries for its health effects and material properties. There are many ...

An attempt to reopen the Yucca Mountain facility in Nevada, where it was built to store nuclear waste, was recently shot down in Congress. The state’s refusal to become the nation’s central repository ...

An abandoned tunnel in the desolate Nevada desert, barricaded only by a chain-link fence, is all that remains of the nation’s tortured effort to create a permanent repository for nuclear waste 100 ...

A look at the attempt to establish Yucca Mountain in Nevada as a site for a nuclear waste repository. Yucca Mountain is located approximately 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Congress passes Nuclear ...

A renewed push to bury the nation’s most dangerous nuclear waste northwest of Las Vegas could hinge on competing scientific theories about the hazards of nearby volcanoes. If federal regulators ...

Hoven Riley knew money was tight at his family’s West Texas cotton farm the year his mom asked him to go outside and dig up a yucca elata to use as a Christmas tree. The species, also known as the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Tiny Pony Tavern sits amid a stretch of California’s high desert known for its abundant Joshua trees, gorgeous surrounding ...

I adopted Lotus Moonflower from the Palm Springs ASPCA years ago. This silent white pit bull suddenly wasn't herself the other day. Her face had changed, the stop and bridge of her nose swelled up in ...

Whether it is flowers sprouting in the spring, cicadas mating in the blistering heat of summer, or caterpillars hatching to feed on their favorite host plant, across the natural world, the timing of ...