During a public meeting Thursday, residents urged federal officials to ban water-intensive mining in the valley, which they ...

The Bureau of Land Management is gathering community input on a potential 20-year mineral withdrawal for more than 300,000 acres of land.

Activists say the dairy is the largest user of water of the Amargosa River, a small system that flows from Beatty into Death Valley National Park in California. Drilling that’s exploratory or a ...

President Donald Trump’s Bureau of Land Management in Nevada will decide the fate of mining near Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge.

Amargosa voles occupy a tiny range in the Mojave Desert where the Amargosa River interrupts its subterranean flows with occasional above-ground stretches and little marshes grow around springs and ...

The Oasis Valley speckled dace is existentially threatened by numerous proposed gold mines adjacent to the Amargosa River. If the mines are built, dewatering and groundwater pumping from their ...

The species lives only in southern Nevada’s Oasis Valley, a rare and biologically diverse wetland area along the Upper Amargosa River, on the crux of the Great Basin and Mojave deserts. Like other ...

Claire Watkins, who played volleyball at the community center as a student, said Amargosa Valley should not have to bear the burden of lithium mining. “As I see it, this river kept me alive ...