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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

In the wake of Typhoon Halong, an AI language company wants to hire Native translators, raising questions about data sovereignty.

The decline isn’t just in Northern California: Across the West, porcupines are vanishing. Wildlife scientists are racing to find where porcupines are still living, and why they’re disappearing. Others ...

On the far edge of suburban Phoenix, a giant concrete arch spans the Central Arizona Project, dubbed a “Bridge to Nowhere” by developers and neighborhood activists alike. Nobody can use it; even ...

The bigotry displayed when white supremacists disrupted a Pride celebration in Centralia repeats a pattern that dates back to 1919.

This story was originally published by Searchlight New Mexico and is reproduced here with permission. In the Permian Basin, now the most prolific oil field in the world, hundreds of miles of plastic ...

The most widely held and deeply ingrained popular image of Lewis and Clark also happens to be the most serious misconception of their expedition. In that image, they cross North America on their own ...

At the fourth annual Hanford Journey, Yakama Nation youth, elders and scientists share stories about a land that is a part of them. A mother doe, flanked by a fawn still in spots, bounds through belly ...