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The black-and-white images on the supermarket walls create a nostalgic environment for people seeking groceries in the heart of a food desert.
A 2001 policy restricts road construction on Forest Service land. What happens to at-risk species if it’s removed?
By painting their final meal before execution, an artist humanized people sentenced to capital punishment.
As public media is threatened after cuts from Trump administration, Indigenous radio also face threats to how they preserve and grow language.
BY MID-JULY 2002, the country was at a Preparedness Level 5, meaning that over 80% of the nation’s fire-fighting resources were committed. This was an extreme year for fires, with Oregon, Colorado and ...
Despite federal policies complicating Fullerton’s conservation success story.
IN JUNE, OREGON LAWMAKERS passed new legislation designed to ensure better detection of landfill methane leaks. Senate Bill 726 requires the state’s second-largest dump, Republic Services’ Coffin ...
The flash of a red admiral’s tangerine wings, the shadow of a black swallowtail, or the beautiful bright orange hue of monarch butterflies: Each year, a network of volunteers fan out across Colorado ...
A former firefighter makes the case for community paramedicine in the age of climate change.
Native to Eastern North America, they — the bullfrogs, not the biologists — were brought West in the late 1800s, often for food, and have been a problem ever since. Over the course of several years, ...
American kestrels are found throughout the Americas, from Canada to Argentina’s southern tip. Come fall, kestrels from Canada and Alaska head south in search of food, returning north in the spring to ...
In late spring, the San Juan charged like a desert bighorn ram in the rut. It was strewn with cottonwood seeds: The puffy globs drifted on the khaki surface like a monsoon over a desert escarpment.