The Southern Arizona Hermosa Project could make Santa Cruz County a critical region for mining raw minerals needed for renewable energy. But some are concerned for water, air quality and wildlife.

I never knew the horizon could be so vast, the sky so open, until I started doing research and conservation work in the ...

Recently, residents of Patagonia, a small mountain town in the southeastern part of Arizona, have been receiving troubling ...

What's happening? South32, the largest manganese producer globally, plans to open a manganese, zinc, lead, and silver mine in southeast Arizona's Patagonia mountains.

Center for Biological Diversity: TUCSON, Ariz.— Attorneys for conservation advocates will present oral arguments Monday to the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Pasadena requesting a preliminary ...

Two environmental groups are suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over what they say are air-pollution problems with a zinc mine in the Patagonia Mountains of southern Arizona. The ...

See Patagonia from above with aerial views of the Andes mountains, vast glaciers, windswept steppes, forests, and rugged ...

A wildfire in the Patagonia Mountains grew to 10,775 acres Thursday, as crews set fire to grass and brush to establish a perimeter around the blaze, southwest of Patagonia.

The charming mountain town is in the Sky Islands region of Arizona, tucked between the Santa Rita and Patagonia ranges. It’s ...

Matt Oberg and Leila Shiels went travelling in South America and ended up creating the world’s southernmost distillery.

A Canadian company is dramatically ratcheting up plans for exploratory silver drilling - and possibly for future mining - in the mountains surrounding the Southern Arizona town of Patagonia.

The Patagonia Mountains provide a key corridor for jaguars and ocelots moving north from Mexico through a border wall gap to their range in the United States. Recently a jaguar is believed to have ...