After six years, a small but meaningful legal victory halts a plan to massively expand Daneros uranium mine, near Bears Ears National Monument. On my first day at the Grand Canyon Trust seven years ...

A December 2024 poll of Arizona voters shows strong support for national monuments. According to a new poll, 80% of Arizona voters support Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the ...

A December 2024 poll of 500 registered voters in the beehive state by Republican public opinion research firm New Bridge Strategy shows that Utahns get out onto their national public lands frequently, ...

Groundwater pumping at a uranium mine near the Grand Canyon will affect the canyon’s springs, scientists says. In 1986, the U.S. Forest Service approved a plan to operate a private uranium mine on the ...

Uranium trucks are passing through Arizona, Utah, and the Navajo Nation despite strong opposition. If you’re driving to or from the Grand Canyon’s south entrance and you pass a tractor trailer that ...

Dr. Laura Crossey explains what scientists know about groundwater in the Grand Canyon region. Dr. Laura Crossey: The Grand Canyon is like a layer cake and some of the layers are these beautiful ...

The Information Lab analyzed data from annual aquifer protection reports submitted by the owner of Canyon Mine (also known as Pinyon Plain Mine), a contested uranium mine near the Grand Canyon, and ...

Submitted on January 23, 2017, the revised Canyon Mine aquifer protection permit annual report for 2016 shows the mine pumped 1,422,066 gallons of water out of the mine shaft in 2016.

Since late 2016, more than 66 million gallons of groundwater have been pumped out of a controversial uranium mine, Canyon Mine (renamed Pinyon Plain Mine), near Grand Canyon National Park. The water ...

Challenging conditions have endangered, threatened, or imperiled these five native fish in the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon, a mile-deep chasm walled by steep cliffs, scorching in summer and chilly ...

Even a short journey of a few hundred steps on the Bright Angel Trail offers a deeper perspective on the Grand Canyon. Although millions of people visit Grand Canyon National Park each year, few ever ...

Glen Canyon Dam flooded over 180 miles of the Colorado River to form Lake Powell and provide power. How does the dam work? The presence — or lack — of water has shaped the desert Southwest. Since the ...