The Underground Atlas, a new model of the worldwide distribution of mycorrhizal, or network-forming, fungi, shows that the ...

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 ...

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

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

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

In the Trump administration’s reorganization of the struggling agency, painful echoes of BLM’s past moves.

For a century, the Colorado River has been managed in pieces. Legally and politically, it’s divided into two basins, with each state and community focused on securing its respective water supply. But ...

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