Up to 120 million acres of our public lands could be available for sale. If that happens, hunting, camping, birdwatching, and ...

Native experts weigh in on the history of tribal lands, sovereignty, and what it means to own land. This blog is distilled from the Native Perspectives virtual series held in partnership with Grand ...

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Native fish species used to thrive in warm, muddy waters across the desert Southwest. The humpback chub is one of those native fish species — holding its own in these ...

The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the U.S. ban on imports of Russian oil, natural gas, and coal, have rekindled concerns about where the United States gets its uranium and sparked renewed ...

U.S. portion of the Colorado River Basin. Stephanie Smith. The Colorado River Basin covers 246,000 square miles of land — an area just slightly smaller than Texas — that contributes water to the river ...

Before the Grand Canyon was a national park, it was the ancestral homeland of Native peoples. Hear voices of the Grand Canyon speak. Experience the Grand Canyon alongside Jim Enote (Zuni), Nikki ...

Dr. Laura Crossey: The Grand Canyon is like a layer cake and some of the layers are these beautiful “confined” aquifers. People tend to think the water will stay in that one layer. But all you have to ...

As the Bureau of Land Management makes plans to mitigate a large pile of abandoned toxic and radioactive mine waste inside the original Bears Ears National Monument, Utah’s Abandoned Mine Reclamation ...

Glen Canyon Dam flooded over 180 miles of the Colorado River to form Lake Powell and provide power. How does the dam work? The presence — or lack — of water has shaped the desert Southwest. Since the ...

The Grand Canyon is more than a national park, but is it true that it’s also home to a vast supply of uranium? How much uranium is there in the Grand Canyon region exactly?. If you’ve been lucky ...

Proclamation restoring protections to Bears Ears National Monument. On October 8, 2021, President Biden signed this proclamation, confirming, restoring, and supplementing the boundaries and ...

The Information Lab analyzed data from annual aquifer protection reports submitted by the owner of Canyon Mine (also known as Pinyon Plain Mine), a contested uranium mine near the Grand Canyon, and ...