On a high flank of Battlement Mesa, a summer home sat almost atop a nuclear test site, and fish occupied a former drilling fluid overflow pond. That’s how the U.S. Department of Energy described the ...

Editor’s note: This story is the first of a two-part series. The second installment will appear in Monday’s newspaper. Near the end of a washboard gravel road climbing uphill about five miles off ...

Any industrial activity near water reserves could, in principle, cause contamination. Isotope hydrology offers a unique combination of methods to monitor water quality and trace the source of ...