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Lessons from the Dead: Nevada’s Future Doctors to Begin Dissection Despite COVID-19 Challenges
September 29, 2021
On October 1st, first year medical students begin dissecting the human cadavers housed at the Pennington Health Sciences gross anatomy lab at UNR. Lab manager Lindsay Pisani gives us a tour and talks us through what has changed for the gross anatomy course since the start of the pandemic.
Trees move uphill as Sierra Nevada climate warms
February 5, 2020
Warming Sierra Nevada temperatures mean young trees of cold-adapted species are growing at elevations hundreds of feet higher than trees counted 80 years ago — taking entire habitats with them.
Shrinking Sierra snowpack: Warming temperatures shift snow to rain, forcing water agencies to adapt
January 29, 2020
As wintertime temperatures warm in the Sierra Nevada, precipitation shifts from snow to rain. That means snowpack is shrinking — and changing the entire foundation for people’s water supply across the American West.
