Nikki Cooley’s family were forced to sell off most of the livestock they depended on for both food and income as springs dried up and wells went dry in the heart of the Navajo Nation.
“My parents... Read Original Story
GLEN CANYON NATIONAL RECREATION AREA — A small bucket loader scraped Wahweap Bay's expanding strip of red mud and gravel, its operator smoothing the shoreline where concrete workers were busy chasing... Read Original Story
Hydrologists recently updated the model that forecasts the level of Lake Powell. These projections are critical for planning for an increasingly dry future in the Colorado River Basin, but a new... Read Original Story
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled against environmental groups and an Arizona tribe in their bid to keep a uranium mine south of the Grand Canyon from operating.
The... Read Original Story
If you’re planning a visit to the Grand Canyon, the National Park Service wants you to take some time to learn about the tribal communities that call the region home. Visitors to Grand Canyon... Read Original Story
At 4:30 a.m. on Jan. 17, 1994, a magnitude 6.7 earthquake caused a citywide power outage in Los Angeles. I lived there at the time and was among the many Angelenos who made their way outside, looked... Read Original Story
A recent survey from the State of the Rockies Project estimates that 77% of Western voters support “30x30” conservation goals.
The 12th annual Conservation in the West survey, conducted by bipartisan... Read Original Story
ALBUQUERQUE — The megadrought in the American Southwest has become so severe that it’s now the driest two decades in the region in at least 1,200 years, scientists said Monday, and climate change is... Read Original Story
