grand canyon (ariz)

Top Tweets
A building with a plaque reading United STates Environmental Protection Agency next to a glass door and elegant lanterns.
ripe pineapple fruits in a row on shelves.
group of people walking inside building without lights.
Blue and brown bird on gray wooden fence during daytime.
colorado river drought climate
Photo by Mike Newbry on Unsplash

The Grand Canyon and Colorado River are in crisis

As the planet warms, low snow is starving the Colorado River at its headwaters in the Rockies, and higher temperatures are pilfering more of it through evaporation.

Why the debate over Russian uranium worries U.S. tribal nations

Why the debate over Russian uranium worries U.S. tribal nations

If imports end because of the war, American companies may look to increase domestic mining, which has a toxic history on Indigenous lands.
‘The coal industry is back,' Trump proclaimed. It wasn't
www.nytimes.com

‘The coal industry is back,' Trump proclaimed. It wasn't

The demise of coal-fired power plants in Arizona and Kentucky shows how the president, despite promises to restore jobs, failed to counter the forces decimating the industry.
Janice Brahney: You’re probably inhaling microplastics right now
www.nytimes.com

Janice Brahney: You’re probably inhaling microplastics right now

A new study found plentiful evidence of these tiny particles in dust in the nation’s most remote places.

Uranium miners pushed hard for a comeback. They got their wish.

Bears Ears shrinks, Navajo neighbors cringe, uranium miners get a windfall.

Hundreds of mining claims fall neatly outside the new boundaries of Bears Ears National Monument, and a Navajo town scarred by uranium is bracing for new woes.
ORIGINAL REPORTING
MOST POPULAR
CLIMATE