The Green River in Utah’s Uinta Mountains follows a perplexing path, and a team of scientists think “lithospheric drip” is ...

“It’s such a weird path,” said Adam Smith, a researcher in numerical modeling at the University of Glasgow, describing a river that seems to ignore a mountain range that should have turned it aside.

The Green River defies gravity: it flows through 99 miles of mountains thanks to movements hidden beneath the surface.

Utah state officials reissued a key water permit for a lithium extraction project near the Green River, overruling concerns raised by conservation advocates and federal agencies. Utah State Engineer ...

Based on how far the drip fell and how fast it descended, scientists estimate that it broke off two to five million years ago.

The exploratory project approved in Utah would tap briny groundwater near the major tributary to the Colorado River. Environmentalists apprehensive about a planned lithium extraction project near a ...

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