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It is estimated that the Amrabad Tiger Reserve has about 20 tigers. | Davidraju / Wikimedia Commons Between protecting the interests of the tigers and Chenchu Adivasis and pursuing uranium mining in Telangana state, the former has won for now. The Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research, Hyderabad under the Department of Atomic Energy has decided to “shelve” the project to drill boreholes in the Amrabad Tiger Reserve to prospect for the yellowcake, a form...

Congress has opportunity to protect Grand Canyon region An overlook of the Grand Canyon. (Photo by Tim Brown/Courtesy Bureau of Reclamation) The Grand Canyon Protection Act was recently introduced by U.S. Rep. Raύl Grijalva and passed in the House and has been introduced in the Senate by Sen. Kyrsten Sinema. The bills will permanently protect about 1 million acres of public lands surrounding Grand Canyon from the harmful and lasting damage of new uranium mining. Sandy Bahr Arizona Faith Netwo...

The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed a conservation package that includes a bill to ban new uranium mining claims on more than a million acres

/ The Mexican Hat Disposal Cell holds radioactive material from a uranium mill located nearby which operated from 1957 to 1965, and from another uranium mill site 15 miles southwest, near Monument Valley. Utah lawmakers want Congress to extend the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, or RECA. It’s a federal program meant to help those suffering the effects of nuclear testing or uranium mining. RECA is set to expire in 2022, despite ongoing radiation exposure and hundreds of pending claims. �...

Arizona’s U.S. Senators have introduced a bill that would ban all new uranium mining near Grand Canyon National Park. KNAU’s Ryan Heinsius reports, it’s

0:54 Rep. Grijalva and 16 other Democrats introduced the Grand Canyon Protection Act Monday in the U.S. House of Representatives. It’s similar to other attempts to withdraw more than a million acres adjacent to the national park from future uranium mining while leaving existing claims intact. In 2012, then-U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar banned new uranium claims for 20 years. Conservationists worry about the possible negative effects expanded mining could have on the Grand Canyon’s gro...

Radiation illnesses and COVID-19 in the Navajo Nation, , February 3, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic is wiping out Indigenous elders and with them the cultural identity of Indigenous communities in the United States. But on lands that sprawl across a vast area of the American West, the Navajo (or Diné) are dealing not just with the pandemic, but also with another, related public health crisis. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says COVID-19 is killing Native Americans at nearly ...

Communiqué de presse de fin de marche (en anglais) Communiqué de presse envoyé par le collectif FOOTPRINTS FOR PEACE. COMMON HEALTH before COMMONWEALTH Anti uranium-mining walkers on home stretch to reach the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting Fifty walkers from fifteen different countries are set to reach Perth this week. The walkers left Wiluna nine weeks and 1,200 km’s ago. Through rain, wind, and dust, through hot days and cold nights the walkers have remained strong in...

Together with the environmental organization the sierra club the havasupai have taken legal action to stop the mine from operating. in germany too uranium mining has taken its toll a toxic environmental legacy of the communist era in east germany. for example some eighty thousand tonnes of uranium were extracted here during the cold war delivered to the soviet union for nuclear bombs and to supply nuclear power plants. by some the valley of death was one of several dozen mines operated by vis mo...

Because it be little to you and you begin to know how you have even this core because youre not. all of it. here just a little piece of a parcel when you look at the grand canyon. for tourists up above the canyon appears devoid of human life but tucked away inside a deep valley is the village of supai one of the most remote settlements in the u.s. the only way to reach it is by helicopter or enforce the nearest road is thirteen kilometers away. now if you put just so is one of supai is five hund...