The town of Tusayan and an Italian developer are launching a new effort to build resorts and hundreds of homes south of the Grand Canyon, submitting a proposal to the U.S. Forest Service that would... Read Original Story
When John Muir and Teddy Roosevelt urged us to shield our iconic landscapes from the forces of greed and destruction, we listened. Muir in Yosemite, lamenting the “hoofed locusts” that devastated the... Read Original Story
IN AMONG THE quietest places in the continental United States, where the discordant whine of newly hatched cicadas is usually the loudest sound, the metallic growl of a 28-ton masticator overpowers... Read Original Story
In 2017, when President Trump rode into town to slash Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument nearly in half, he left intact a hard-wrought, two-decade-old bargain to end cattle grazing in a tiny... Read Original Story
The last trainload of coal rolled into the Navajo Generating Station near Page on Monday, marking the closure of the mine 78 miles away and starting a countdown for the plant's own darkening.
The... Read Original Story
Hundreds of thousands of acres inside what used to be Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument will be opened to mineral extraction under a plan the Bureau of Land Management released Friday,... Read Original Story
In the last three years, uranium mining has released close to 20 million gallons of radioactive groundwater into Canyon Mine, whose operations sit in a meadow surrounded by ponderosa pine forest... Read Original Story
Environmentalists have called for the state to shut down a uranium mine outside Grand Canyon National Park. They cite severe flooding that threatens to pollute drinking water.
The Sierra Club and... Read Original Story
