Desert Environmental News, July 23 2025

The state was immediately changed by Los Alamos and the Manhattan Project's detonation of the world's first atomic weapon, and the consequences still echo.

Dozens of residents in Keams Canyon, Arizona, on the Hopi Reservation’s First Mesa, have returned home after being evacuated due to area wildfires on July 13.

A bill introduced in Congress late last month seeks to strip the Mexican gray wolf of its protections under the federal Endangered Species Act.

Google’s site in Henderson had the highest estimated water use in 2024 at roughly 352 million gallons.

Grand County leaders are calling on the Department of the Interior to consider other options than a reservation system at Arches National Park.

John Nordstrom made his way through scattered oak, walnut and pine trees throughout his property in the Patagonia Mountains until he reached the edge of a pond that began to

The Trump administration falsely suggested last week that Chinese landowners are encroaching on the Army's Yuma Proving Ground.

Clark County’s urbanization allows for mosquitoes to thrive.

A call to curtail water usage for agriculture to protect the tui chub has Esmeralda County residents fighting to protect what they say is a way of life.

It's currently unclear if state and federal officials plan to capture the male wolf, which was spotted near Mount Taylor.

In Albuquerque, much of the Rio Grande was a cracked riverbed Monday, a result of a record dry winter and legal restrictions on storing Rio Grande water.

The Arizona Department of Water Resources will allow Buckeye to withdraw up to 5,926 acre-feet of water a year from the Harquahala basin in western Arizona for up to 110 years. That is enough to serve more than 17,000 homes.

One of the most important tools to any family on the Hopi Tribe’s reservation in northeastern Arizona is the refrigerator. Grocery shopping can require up to four hours of driving

The Nevada refuge outside of Las Vegas is home to 12 protected species, including the Devils Hole pupfish.

Search teams, including fire crews and swift water rescue teams, are combing through neighborhoods in Vado to ensure residents are accounted for.

The FBI and other law enforcement agencies have for years worked alongside private security to surveil protesters who oppose Nevada’s Thacker Pass lithium mine, according to internal law enforcement communications reviewed by ProPublica.