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When it comes to tourist destinations, casinos are simultaneously one of the world’s most popular and controversial attractions. People can spend their

Dead in the water On a sunny May morning at Hemenway Harbor on Lake Mead in Nevada, the dock staff were preparing for the afternoon voyage of the Desert Princess. The steam paddler, painted bright white with a yellow and black trimmed hull, bobbed in the water with the stars and stripes fluttering at her helm. Beneath the wooden […]

The photos, released by NASA Thursday, show the lakes shrinking shoreline over the years - a result of a more than 20-yearlong megadrought in the southwestern US.

Mobsters which end up resting with fish are rarely resurrected. Nonetheless, global warming has a habit of interfering with even the mafia, and an underwater tomb beyond Las Vegas is beginning to reveal the capital's deepest mysteries.

As its shoreline retreats, revealing more of the lake bed, it may yield more mob secrets, one expert said.

Climate change has a way of messing even with the Mafia, this time it has exposed murky mob past of Las Vegas through the dried up Lake Mead

LAS VEGAS, July 4 — Mobsters who end up sleeping with the fishes are usually never seen again. But climate change has a way of messing even with the mafia, and a watery grave...

The watery graves outside Las Vegas are starting to cough up Sin City's darkest secrets as climate change is messing up with the mafia. In a grueling decades-long drought, Lake Mead is drying up and its receding waters are leaving behind the usual flotsam and jetsam of a lake heavily trafficked by weekend boaters. After authorities found the remains of a human being stuffed in a barrel they discovered that he had been shot in the head.

As its shoreline retreats, revealing more of the lake bed, it may yield more mob secrets, one expert said.

Mobsters who end up sleeping with the fishes are usually never seen again, but climate change has a way of messing even with the mafia, and a watery grave outside Las Vegas is starting to cough up Sin City’s darkest secrets. Lake Mead, which can be reached from the Las Vegas Strip by a short ride in the trunk of a car with your hands and feet bound, is drying up in a grueling decades-long drought. Its receding waters are leaving behind the usual flotsam and jetsam of a lake heavily trafficked ...