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Uranium

Study: Higher Concentrations Of Arsenic, Uranium In Drinking Water In Black, Latino, Indigenous Communities

The findings, researchers said, underscore the reality that communities where people of color live often bear the brunt of "contamination that they didn't cause."

By Victoria St. Martin, Aydali Campa

A photo illustration of tap water in a clear glass drinking glass. Credit: Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images
A sign with a skull and crossbones that translates as ‘No uranium’ in the Diné language warns visitors near the Church Rock mining site in Navajo Nation. Credit: Eli Cahan

‘We’re Losing Our People’

By Eli Cahan, Capital & Main

Phil Harrison views a uranium loading bin left behind from the mining era, which stretched from the 1940s to the 1980s. Credit: Cheyanne M. Daniels/MNS

The US Nuclear Weapons Program Left ‘a Horrible Legacy’ of Environmental Destruction and Death Across the Navajo Nation

By Cheyanne M. Daniels

U.S. May Open Up Grand Canyon to Uranium Mining

Felicity Carus, Guardian

Plan for Uranium Mining in Virginia Draws Opposition

By Sue Sturgis

Uranium in the Grand Canyon: USGS Report Examines Impacts of Mining

By Dave Levitan

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