How to preserve a glacier’s legacy
Artists are called to document the existence, and disappearance, of glacier.
Class of 2025 leads the way for Indigenous graduation regalia
High school graduates are the first to walk with the protected right to wear cultural attire after the state of New Mexico ed legislation this spring.
Federal workers say Biden’s BLM left them vulnerable to Trump
Documents show Interior rejected a union contract for employees at BLM headquarters days before the inauguration.
Working in the Permian Basin comes at a high cost
Oil workers in New Mexico are subjected to harrowing conditions that lead to death, injury, disease and terrible tolls on mental health and family life.
USGS’ biological research arm could vanish next week
Trump is on a multipronged mission to eliminate a science agency that conservationists, toxicologists, universities and more call irreplaceable.
Trump’s border wall expansion endangers wildlife and habitat
Migration pathways for animals will be further fragmented by the new additions to the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
DOGE is gutting AmeriCorps
The 30-year-old national service agency had tens of thousands working on climate change, conservation and disaster response in communities across the West.
Public lands for housing in Nevada and Utah called ‘giveaway’
Interested parties say water resources, tribal sovereignty and public engagement are threatened by the budget reconciliation bill’s amendment.
Indigenous leaders at UNPFII underscore the need for genuine consent
Free, prior and informed consent is law in some countries. How are they making it work?
Trump asks Congress to cut at the heart of the West
The White House wants to alter life for U.S. hunters, anglers, RVers, off-road-vehicle drivers, backpackers, birdwatchers and hikers.
Massive pipeline spill seeps toward Colorado’s Animas River
23,000 gallons of gasoline leaked on the Southern Ute reservation in December.
A new Montana majority defangs the far right
Disaffected Republicans and resurgent Democrats just took over the Montana Legislature and spent big on education and health care.
Our public lands must not be sold
Former BLM Director Tracy Stone-Manning warns of the very real threat to the nation’s common ground.
Searching for sparrows in the Sky Islands
Grassland restoration in Sonora, Mexico, helps to conserve North America’s bird life.
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Water
Trump’s unprecedented attack on America
NOAA issues critical drought warnings during cuts to agency
Contamination threatens the last source of clean groundwater in west New Mexico
Wildlife
‘De-extinction’ isn’t real, but the conservation questions it raises are
The hidden costs of wolf conservation
Coyote
Public Lands
See 60 days of DOGE chaos
Threats to public lands called ‘outrageous slap in the face’
Trump to rescind the Public Lands Rule
Indigenous Affairs
At U.N., mining groups tout protections for Indigenous people
How the feds abandoned reservations to burn
Trump speaker at UNPFII met with silence
Communities
An intimate look at New Mexico’s lowrider culture
I wish I was ice fishing
The subversive power of Spanish-language radio
Books
The poetic contradictions of the Borderlands
Hunting for dark nights and wishing on stars
Rebecca Nagle considers Supreme Court wins and what’s at stake for tribes under Trump
In the News
Utah’s proposed crude oil railway could see an accident every year
Coloradans fight the oil train project, fearing a repeat of East Palestine’s toxic derailment — but in the Colorado River.