Understanding the ecological consequences of the March 2026 heat wave across the West will take years, but research on a 2021 ...

Paying attention to birds — and doing so in whatever way is accessible to people — supports a person’s health. Moving around in nature tends to correlate with lower levels of stress. You’re not only ...

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

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. Recovery from the Hermit’s Peak-Calf Canyon Fire has been daunting. Residents are ...

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 ...

The agency’s leadership distanced itself from the controversial proposal even though staff helped research public-land sales.

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, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...