A Q&A with the New Mexico Reforestation Center director about what it takes to replant a burn scar post-wildfire. Recovery from the Hermit’s Peak-Calf Canyon Fire has been daunting. Residents are ...

Delegates are arriving in New York for the world’s largest gathering of Indigenous peoples, despite the U.S. presenting challenges for attendees to secure visas.

A Q&A with the New Mexico Reforestation Center director about what it takes to replant a burn scar post-wildfire.

Soil and rocks throughout the West naturally contain chromium-3, a harmless trace element also found in animals and plants — and even included in dietary supplements. “You could dig a hole outside, ...

Over a year into the second Trump administration, Indigenous communities have seen dramatic changes, from rescinding ...

The Underground Atlas, a new model of the worldwide distribution of mycorrhizal, or network-forming, fungi, shows that the fungi in these and other places need protection. Created by researchers at ...

Convention dictates that we stay busy and hurl ourselves headlong toward the future, but there is good reason to press pause now and then.

“This is our worst snowpack on record,” wrote climatologist Allie Mazurek of the Colorado Climate Center in an early April ...

Ten years after the impasse between the Bundy family and the BLM, the doctrine of white oppression is widely embraced. Ten years ago, hundreds of people gathered in a dusty wash underneath a freeway ...

Not all the West’s fire- and death-defying stunts involve tortoises: A human being was caught on police drone footage juggling flaming torches while balancing on a unicycle and impeding traffic near ...

To learn to love flies, you must make annoyance your teacher. Years ago, on a hot summer afternoon, I was sitting on my front porch when a housefly took a liking to me. I swatted, but it kept ...

A captive barn owl from the Blue Mountain area of Oregon. Highway 82 in the Blue Mountains is a wildlife collision hotspot. Credit: Kathy Munsel/Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife When Oregon’s ...