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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Changes to NEPA and other rules and policies by the Trump administration could sideline tribal nations’ efforts to take part in land management projects and decisions on federal lands.

For the last 25 years, 58 million acres of American forest have had no new roads, no logging equipment, and no reason to appear on anyone’s industrial map. This year that is changing — and much faster ...

Cows grazing at Point Reyes National Seashore at sunset. Karen Budd-Falen has worked on a longstanding dispute over cows at Point Reyes. MARCH 20, 2026 UPDATE: Ethics officials at President Donald ...