Chesapeake Bay

Federal judge strikes down Fish and Wildlife ruling that hellbenders are not endangered

Bay Journal News Service

A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to take another look at its 2019 decision denying endangered status protection for the eastern hellbender, the nation’s largest aquatic salamander that is found in low numbers in all Chesapeake Bay drainage states.

Grand Canyon

What’s the kerfuffle over uranium mining near the Grand Canyon?

Roddy Scheer

Since the 1950s when uranium was discovered below the desert in the Grand Canyon region of Arizona, land managers, resource extractors, environmentalists and locals have debated the ecological impacts of mining this heavy metal that serves as an abundant source of concentrated energy for nuclear power plants and other applications.