AMARGOSA VALLEY — Once the divers suit up and turn on the oxygen tanks on their backs, the mission is clear: Count as many little blue fish as possible, and don’t count any of them twice. The aquatic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A magnitude 7.1 earthquake sent shock waves through the Devil's Hole in western Nevada on July 5, 2019. The waves created by the ...

Switching on her microphone at the front of the community center, Amargosa Valley town board chair Carolyn Allen looked stoic as a mining executive tried to pitch drilling for lithium to a wary ...

Discover Ash Meadows’ crystal springs, rare pupfish, and vital conservation efforts in the Mojave. Join host Connor Fields at Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, one of the most ecologically unique ...

Amid the vast Mojave Desert sits an oasis, one brimming with rare flora and fauna that exists nowhere else on earth Nevada’s 23,000-acre Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge is a world of clear ...

A curious, captive-raised Devils Hole pupfish at the Ash Meadows Fish Conservation Facility in Nevada. The facility maintains a refuge population of pupfish as a backup to the wild population, which ...

Numbers of the Devils Hole pupfish have experienced dramatic shifts in recent years, leading to conservationists supplementing the population. Multiple threats exist in habitats this small, and any ...

A magnitude 7.1 earthquake sent shock waves through the Devil's Hole in western Nevada on July 5, 2019. The waves created by the earthquake caused the water to rise and drop at least 10-15 feet.

When endangered species reach low numbers, their survival can depend on whether or not they have new habitats to live in, where more of their kind exists. The Devils Hole pupfish doesn’t get that ...