The decline isn’t just in Northern California: Across the West, porcupines are vanishing. Wildlife scientists are racing to ...

Nearly 40 years after an armed sheriff, anti-LGBTQ activists and a judge’s order shut down the Gay Rodeo Finals, this year ...

Science is essential to managing wildlife populations, but there are limits to what we know.

In early November, Texas-based New Era Energy & Digital announced plans to build a “hyperscale,” meaning massive, AI-processing data center complex in Lea County, New Mexico, the epicenter of the ...

After disappointing losses in Alaska and Montana, an Indigenous-led climate case is making strides in New Mexico.

Nicholas Crane Moore is a former attorney for the U.S. Department of the Interior. His writing explores the relationship between human endeavors and the natural world. Science is essential to managing ...

Basin states have had 2 years to figure out how to share the shrinking river. Will they get there before the feds step in? On the day of a Nov. 11 federal deadline for states to submit a water ...

On Sept. 23, Emily Rees was planting thousands of seedlings of New Mexico vervain, a purple wildflower beloved by pollinators, on the plateau above the Rio Grande Gorge near Taos when she received a ...

BEN RUPERT (DUCK VALLEY SHOSONE-PAIUTE,WASHOE DESCENT) Treasurer of the Nevada Indian Territory Carson City, Nevada ...

Northern leopard frogs were found near the site of what would be one of state’s largest fossil fuel operations.

Kristen Hayashi, the director of collections management and access at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, said the bird pins are “very iconic to the camp experience,” and one of the ...

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