The Grand Canyon sprawls across 1,902 square miles of northern Arizona. Over millions of years a river carved out a many-layered geologic wonder that has inspired poets to dream and scientists to... Read Original Story
WASHINGTON — With Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke departing at the end of the year, the agency will likely be run, at least for a time, by its deputy secretary, David Bernhardt, a former oil lobbyist... Read Original Story
More than 10,000 tons of radioactive waste has been delivered from the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma to the White Mesa Mill south of Blanding, Utah, in order to extract and recycle the uranium. Read Original Story
The Trump administration’s “energy dominance” agenda reasserted itself in Utah on Tuesday with yet another near-record oil and gas lease auction that offered 154,000 acres to the highest bidder,... Read Original Story
Randy Irmis is kneeling next to a prehistoric burial site in the walls of a canyon in the Utah desert.
Just inches under his fingertips is the skull of a 210-million-year-old creature entombed in the... Read Original Story
In the great expanses of the Grand Staircase-Escalante national monument, the silence hits you first. Minutes pass, smooth and unbroken as glass. The smallest sound – a breath of wind, a falling rock... Read Original Story
Even at 100, Grand Canyon National Park is as astonishing as ever. Walk to its edge, and the earth falls away into an expanse of peaks, plateaus, and gorges so vast it can be disorienting. Descend... Read Original Story
A year ago today, Donald Trump traveled to Salt Lake City to sabotage one of America’s oldest environmental laws.
On December 4, 2017, after a concerted pressure campaign by energy companies and... Read Original Story
