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One of the First to Benefit From Trump’s Cuts to Environmental Review: a Nevada Gold Mine

Orla Mining's project near Elko will be the first open-pit mine to receive an accelerated review following the Trump administration’s push to speed permitting for extraction. Opponents fear the public’s concerns will go unheard.

By Wyatt Myskow

Water levels sit low in Lake Powell near Bullfrog, Utah, on Sept. 15. Negotiations to manage the shrinking reservoir and the rest of the Colorado River system may be more difficult without federal leadership. Credit: Alex Hager/KUNC

Nominee for Top Federal Water Role Withdraws Amid Pushback from Some Colorado River States

By Alex Hager, KUNC

A Gila monster is seen near Redrock, N.M. Credit: Anthony Pawlicki

Monsters in Trouble

By Tina Deines

‘No One Comes Out of This Unscathed’: Experts Warn That Colorado River Use Needs Cutting Immediately

By Wyatt Myskow

Arizonans Protest State’s Largest Utility Abandoning Clean Energy Commitments

By Wyatt Myskow

A field camera captures an endangered jaguar roaming in southern Arizona on Aug. 6. Credit: Courtesy of the University of Arizona Wild Cat Research and Conservation Center

Activists Decry New Border Wall’s Impact on Wildlife

By Anita Snow, National Catholic Reporter

Settlement Signed in Texas v. New Mexico Rio Grande Case

By Martha Pskowski

The Colorado River flows near Parker, Ariz. The Colorado River Indian Tribes want to give the river the same legal rights as a person, taking millennia of cultural values and putting them into law. Credit: Alex Hager/KUNC

The Colorado River Is This Tribe’s ‘Lifeblood,’ Now They Want To Give It the Same Legal Rights as a Person

By Alex Hager, KUNC

Amid Tense Negotiations Over the Colorado River’s Future, Arizona Mayors Unite Against ‘Threat’ to State’s Water

By Wyatt Myskow

Court Temporarily Halts Land Transfer That Would Allow a Mine to Destroy Western Apache Sacred Land

By Wyatt Myskow

El Paso’s Heat Is Killing in Record Numbers. It May Only Get Worse

Story by Martha Pskowski, photos by Paul Ratje

As a Critical Minerals Mine Nears Approval in Arizona, Residents Fear It’s Already Affecting Area Water

By Wyatt Myskow

Copper Mines Close in on Western Apache Sacred Site, and the Forest Protected to Mitigate The Damage

By Wyatt Myskow

Grand Canyon Fire Is Now the Largest Burning in the Nation

By Nicholas Kusnetz

BLM Calls New Oil and Gas Rules ‘Noncontroversial,’ Exempts Them From Public Comment

By Jake Bolster

Loretta Johnson stands by a water well on the Navajo Nation in New Mexico. According to an EPA report, the well produces water tainted with arsenic. Credit: Jerry Redfern/Capital & Main

On the Navajo Nation, the List of Mystery Wells Continues to Grow

By Jerry Redfern, Capital & Main

Southwestern Drought Likely to Continue Through 2100, Research Finds

By Wyatt Myskow

Brittany Staie, with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, gathers samples of vegetables that are being grown at the NREL agrivoltaic solar garden in Golden, Colo. Credit: Werner Slocum/NREL

In the Sweltering Southwest, Planting Solar Panels in Farmland Can Help Both Photovoltaics and Crops

By Tina Deines

Border Wall Plans at New Mexico’s Mount Cristo Rey Raise Environmental Concerns

By Martha Pskowski

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