Science isn't always perfect, and decades ago, a graduate student's simple experiment proved that, though exactly why he did what he did remains a mystery.

In 1964, graduate student Donald Rusk Currey asked for permission to cut down a tree growing on Wheeler Peak in Nevada's Great Basin National Park. Though there are different accounts on the ...

High on a windswept Nevada mountainside in the 1960s, a young researcher set out to read the history of climate written in ...