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Paying attention to birds — and doing so in whatever way is accessible to people — supports a person’s health. Moving around in nature tends to correlate with lower levels of stress. You’re not only ...

Delegates are arriving in New York for the world’s largest gathering of Indigenous peoples, despite the U.S. presenting challenges for attendees to secure visas.

A Q&A with the New Mexico Reforestation Center director about what it takes to replant a burn scar post-wildfire. Recovery from the Hermit’s Peak-Calf Canyon Fire has been daunting. Residents are ...

Soil and rocks throughout the West naturally contain chromium-3, a harmless trace element also found in animals and plants — and even included in dietary supplements. “You could dig a hole outside, ...

Over a year into the second Trump administration, Indigenous communities have seen dramatic changes, from rescinding ...

The Underground Atlas, a new model of the worldwide distribution of mycorrhizal, or network-forming, fungi, shows that the fungi in these and other places need protection. Created by researchers at ...

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

In May 2025, Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz visited with Dixie National Forest staff to discuss the local timber industry, recreation and cooperation with national parks. The Trump administration ...

Old snow crunched underfoot in mid-January as a dozen people snowshoed near Molas Pas San Juan Mountains. The interpretive ...

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 ...

Technicians at a training site worked with a glove box, which is used to handle radioactive material. Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory In a sprawling building atop a mesa in New Mexico, workers ...