The understudied mycorrhizal fungi are vital to ecosystems and may prove critical to the survival of fragile deserts stressed by climate change.

Utah used actors, AI, stagecraft and NDAs as it sought to sway public opinion and take control of 18.5 million acres of ...

The majority of public land is too fire prone and far away from communities to even make sense for housing, research shows.

Days after the workplace immigration raids that first sparked protests in Los Angeles, families still had no contact with ...

Antiquities Act gave presidents the power to protect objects on public lands. A Justice Dept. memo said the Act also ”carries with it the power to revoke.” ...

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New Mexico’s legislators are eager to repurpose “produced water,” but environmental organizations say that there is no safe way to do that.

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This article was produced in partnership with New Mexico In Depth, a local nonprofit newsroom. The cliff fendlerbush’s blooms offered countless nibbles for one hungry young deer. Its mother ...

Late last fall, members of Bethel, Alaska’s search and rescue team met at the local public radio station, KYUK, for a program called River Watch.Over an hour and a half, they took calls from ...

This article was originally published by Inside Climate News and is republished here through a partnership with Climate Desk.. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a controversial Utah ...