THAT AUTUMN, A RESEARCH VESSEL called the Glomar Challenger sailed over the Mid-Atlantic Ridge to drill holes and sample sediment. Fossils within the sediment samples they retrieved gave scientists a ...

Indigenous scholar Dina Gilio-Whitaker wants Natives to approach a difficult topic rationally, vulnerably and honestly.

After Cascades frogs vanished from Lassen Volcanic National Park 18years ago, scientists are reintroducing them to the park.

In comparison, he writes, the 300,000 years since Homo sapiens evolved is so brief that “in a single stroke with a medium-grained nail file you could eradicate human history.” In this special issue on ...

A writer recounts an intimate story of feeling the energy and love of her mother, who passed away more than 20 years ago, reverberate through her life even today.

National monuments protect more than 21,000 miles of waterways across the U.S., nearly twice as much waterway mileage as the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, the analysis also determined. The ...

Anton Sorokin is a California-based biologist, photographer and writer who frequently covers wildlife, particularly overlooked species. With careful site selection and antifungal baths, scientists are ...

Students from Heritage University and Northwest Indian College were the first to document the presence of the spotted wing drosophila on the Yakama Nation Reservation — a first step to help eradicate ...

Indigenous scholar Dina Gilio-Whitaker wants Natives to approach a difficult topic rationally, vulnerably and honestly.

Each winter, migrant crews climb into the Sierra to cut wild silvertip firs, a fragile tradition now imperiled by wildfire, climate change, and tightening immigration laws.

Residents and communities begin the years-long recovery process after a series of back-to-back atmospheric rivers hammered ...

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 ...