Most of the electricity generated on the Colorado Plateau comes from burning fossil fuels. Find out about the EPA's proposal to cut carbon dioxide emissions from the nation’s power plants.
Conservation groups sent a letter last week urging federal regulators to suspend operations at a uranium mine near the Grand Canyon, where millions of gallons of uranium-laced groundwater threaten people and wildlife.
Update: CBS News also covered this story on July 14, 2014. Watch the video. by Roger Clark, Grand Canyon DirectorThis week’s story in the Los Angeles Times spotlights ever-present threats...
The grass moved and swayed in the wind, I could almost feel the breeze. A bird would fly to the tree and perch on the creaking branch but in the next slide, it would disappear.
All were anxious to document our target species, the mountain lion, and get a glimpse of other elusive northern Arizona wildlife otherwise invisible to most visitors to this remote and wild region.
In an important victory for public lands and Grand Canyon National Park, a U.S. Court of Federal Claims judge last week dismissed a lawsuit by VANE Minerals LLC challenging the Department of the Interior’s 2012 decision to ban new uranium mining across a million acres of public land in Arizona for 20 years.
The Escalade project continues to occupy the minds of many families wanting to save their sacred area, the land where many generations settled to raise livestock and live a peaceful existence. The...
Islands evoke visions of diversity: strange trees, magnificent reptiles, beautiful flowers, resplendent birds. Much of this diversity is due to an island's physical isolation from other islands...
Ken Salazar at Grand Canyon National Park, June 20, 2011. Photo by Erin Whittaker, National Parks Service
Two years ago, Arizona Congressman Raúl Grijalva greeted us warmly as we stepped in from a squall of snowflakes for a special event in Washington DC. My 17-year-old daughter and I had flown out from...
