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.

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.

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.

“This is a remarkable victory for our community here in the Amargosa Basin,” said Mason Voehl, the Amargosa Conservancy’s executive director. “Mining doesn’t belong near our beloved Ash ...

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.

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.

In response, the Center and the Amargosa Conservancy filed a lawsuit against BLM challenging its approval of the project. “This is a remarkable victory for our community here in the Amargosa Basin,” ...

Amargosa Valley residents are concerned about the wells they rely on for drinking water after Rover Critical Minerals staked claim ... “This basin has been over-appropriated and over-pumped ...

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 ...

AMARGOSA VALLEY, Nev. — At nearly every turn in their 14-year-long battle with the federal government over water in the Nevada desert, Victor and Annette Fuentes have suffered defeat.

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

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Federal land managers have formally withdrawn their authorization of a Canadian mining company’s lithium exploration project bordering a national wildlife refuge in southern ...