Desert News, 12/9

December 09, 2024

11/25

Northern Arizona University dedicates new Indigenous plant haven

11/26

Advocates from around country urge lame-duck House to resume payments to Downwinders

11/27

A bobcat can pass through the border wall, but most larger species can't, study finds

11/30

Black-footed ferrets reintroduced to Arizona for first time in nearly 30 years

12/2

Grassroots organization has been working 20 years to remove uranium waste from sacred homeland

Conservation agreement will protect Upper Verde River, grasslands and a historic ranch

How a $50 million investment will mitigate drought in the Great Salt Lake Basin

12/3

Prescott National Forest Announces Reduced Office Hours Due to Staffing Shortage

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12/4

California water savings could return 16 feet to Lake Mead, officials say

‘We gotta see this,’ spectators say as desert bighorn sheep move into Franklin Mountains

12/5

Artist Hopes to Resume Work on Halted Environmental Justice Mural

TxDOT advances border highway study along Rio Bosque

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12/6

$849 million for Western water projects announced by Biden administration

California students demand transparency from Southern AZ mining group

Could wet winters start to refill Colorado River reservoirs? What researchers are saying

Upper and lower basin states hit tough impasse at annual Colorado River conference

Here’s what you need to know about this week’s Colorado River conference

Here’s what NV Energy is proposing to build to keep up with energy demand

12/7

Leaving Las Vegas without a deal over the Colorado River, states expected to keep talking

More pipeline problems trigger additional water cutbacks at Grand Canyon

Local opinion: It’s time for Arizona to ban dog pack hunting

Study highlights overlooked emissions in California’s Salton Sea Air Basin

New Mexico gets over $140 million to re-align a section of the Rio Grande

Los Alamos Tritium Venting on hold as community concerns continue

12/8

The Greenlink West transmission project has doubled in cost. Ratepayers are being asked to help fund it