How many people died? Flight 718 fell deep into the canyon near the confluence of the Colorado River and the Little Colorado River, its wreckage strewn over the southern cliff face of Chuar Butte.

This is an exposure of the Chuar Group in Carbon Canyon, Grand Canyon. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing ...

Swiss climbers, brought in by United Airlines to assist with recovery efforts, rig a tramway over a crevasse to reach human remains and airplane parts that tumbled down from the shoulder on Chuar ...

We saw many sprouting agaves over the course of our hike, including this one atop the ridge that separates Chuar Valley from Basalt Canyon on day seven.

Many a time I have cruised down Highway 64, hellbent for the Grand Canyon, right past the jutting geologic carbuncle known as Red Butte.

The Chuar Group — a lithified sequence of Neoproterozoic sediments laid down in a shallow ocean in the Grand Canyon area, long before the Grand Canyon existed — contains abundant and ...

Officials say the Blacktail Canyon fire south of Butte is 15-20 acres with the potential to change rapidly. Several additional firefighting resources are on the way.

But Roosevelt's grand vision remains unfulfilled as, old-growth logging and legacy impacts from uranium mining continue unabated on public lands just outside the boundaries of these protected spaces.

Impossible to miss along State Route 64 about 20 miles south of the Grand Canyon, the russet stone pinnacle known as Red Butte commands the landscape.

In December 2016, the administration designated both Bears Ears and Gold Butte National Monuments. Unfortunately, the Greater Grand Canyon Heritage National Monument wasn't designated before Obama ...