Desert Environmental News, 2/10

If you find working really remotely appealing, Big Bend National Park has a volunteer program for you.

A quick-strike crew of Native American firefighters and journeymen utility workers from the Navajo Nation are helping Los Angeles residents cut through landslides, mangled trees and charred debris.

The BLM okays a temporary halt to mining near the beleaguered wildlife refuge.

FORT DEFIANCE, Ariz. — The Navajo Tribal Utility Authority (NTUA) was notified that it will be awarded $110 million from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) as part of

The Tohono O’odham Nation signed a co-stewardship agreement with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management for federal lands with deep cultural and religious ties for the tribal nation. 

Foes of a plan to construct a new interstate highway — including a segment that could go through environmentally sensitive portions of Pima County — have won a temporary reprieve.

Mining company plans uranium transport through dangerous Navajo roads as data reveals tribal segments have up to 7 times higher fatal crash rates.

A bill codifying emissions reduction goals cleared a committee hearing Tuesday.

Havasupai elders fight to protect sacred Red Butte Mountain as uranium mine begins hauling ore past ancestral lands near Grand Canyon

House committee passes bill that would outlaw cloud seeding and climate intervention research after supporters cite debunked conspiracy theories

Chris Clarke dives into the controversial Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating Station project

Navajo Nation and Energy Fuels reach agreement on uranium ore transport through tribal lands, adding new safety measures and compensation

Navajo communities learn uranium dangers from comics while lacking emergency plans for new mining trucks crossing tribal lands

Two conservation groups sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to respond to objections over an air quality permit previously issued to mining company South32.

President Trump shut down the CBP One app, ending migrants’ ability to request asylum in the U.S. at the Southern border.

PHOENIX — Backed by elected officials from rural areas, Democratic lawmakers unveiled a plan they say would provide protections against groundwater drying up.

White Mesa tribe faces new uranium threat as ancestral community becomes destination for nuclear waste and Grand Canyon ore shipments.

On a Thursday morning in late October 2024, a small crowd gathered outside an elementary school in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Nogales, Sonora.

LA had planned to take substantially less from the iconic Eastern Sierra lake this winter. The decision is a blow to conservationists who have been trying to restore the lake for decades.

PHOENIX – A federal judge has tossed out a bid by Republican state lawmakers to overturn the designation of nearly a million acres of federal land near the Grand Canyon

Environmentalists and farmers are challenging Arizona's approval of an air pollution permit for Copper World Mine, claiming it's lax on toxic dust.

Hundreds of ASU students march to support undocumented classmates after campus club urges reporting them to immigration authorities

The Navajo Nation lacks uranium-specific emergency plans as multiple agencies struggle to coordinate response for nuclear shipments.

The Environment Department had decided to pause injections, fearing they might be harmful, but officials found the effort was successful.

MOHAVE VALLEY — Federal administration turnover may slow progress in adopting new operating guidelines for the Colorado River Basin.

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Sedona may be getting fire breaks on the south side during the next decade as the U.S. Forest Service considers additional fire management approaches for the Red Rock Ranger District.

Mesa Main Library, 64 E. First St. is getting solar panel canopies, which will offer covered parking for visitors while adding capacity for energy generation.

Imperial County officials unveiled the long-awaited Lithium Valley Specific Plan draft at a press conference on Friday, Feb. 7, in El Centro.

A newly finished 4-year study of bobcats in Tucson documented several cases of mothers sharing urban spaces with their adult daughters, an unusual finding.

Glen Canyon is famous as part of a system of spectacular scenic canyons on the Colorado River. But when the Glen Canyon Dam was built in 1963, it created Lake Powell for river water storage and drowned the native flora in Glen Canyon and its many side canyons.

Arizona's first 18 federally financed electric vehicle charging stations will start construction late this year as planned, despite a new Trump administration halt to most federal spending on such projects,