The Mojave Desert, which includes the Amargosa Basin, is already the hottest place in North America. Temperatures in Death Valley, where the river terminates, regularly top 125 degrees Fahrenheit.

She and Donnelly were there to present at a symposium concerning the Amargosa Basin, a 5,500-square-mile region around Death Valley defined by its eponymous river.

Exploration is typically the least environmentally damaging stage of mining, but even shallow drilling in the Amargosa Basin groundwater system can have severe, unpredictable and far-reaching impacts.

“This is a remarkable victory for our community here in the Amargosa Basin,” said Mason Voehl, the Amargosa Conservancy’s executive director.

Amargosa Valley residents are concerned about the wells they rely on for drinking water after Rover Critical Minerals staked claim to public land around the town.

Amargosa Valley's town clerk told Channel 13 he's keeping tabs on what he says is a developing concern: new mining claims popping up on the backroads of the community.

The Amargosa Basin is also the ancestral homelands of the Timbisha Shoshone and Southern Paiute and many of the area’s lands and waters are considered culturally sacred.

The Amargosa Conservancy is a Nevada and California nonprofit organization dedicated to working towards a sustainable future for the Amargosa Basin through science, stewardship and advocacy.

The nonprofit Friends of the Amargosa Basin is the primary advocate for the monument’s creation, which would stretch about 75 miles along the California-Nevada border.

Amargosa River, the lifeline of the refuge, runs below ground for much of its 180-mile course, but in the stretches that reach the surface, the river supports endemic species that depend entirely ...

Federal land managers have pulled the plug on a Canadian mining company’s lithium exploration project near a national wildlife refuge in southern Nevada.