A planned 1.3-mile wall across Mount Cristo Rey has drawn opposition from environmentalists and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Las Cruces.

On Monday, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management posted an announcement seeking online public comment on the proposed reversal ...

Danielle Prokop covers the environment and local government for Source NM. Her coverage has delved into climate crisis on the Rio Grande, water litigation and health impacts from ...

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

Martha Pskowski covers climate change and the environment in Texas from her base in El Paso. She was previously an environmental reporter at the El Paso Times. She began her career as a freelance ...

In 2016, Irma Carrillo Nevares swabbed the inside of her cheek and signed a consent form allowing the Colibrí Center for Human Rights to add her DNA to its database. Carrillo Nevares’ son and daughter ...

History will judge the Trump administration harshly for elevating oil and gas at the expense of everything else.

It was morning, and the wide Las Vegas Strip was empty. Neon signs glittered quietly as Matthew Livelsberger cruised a silver Tesla Cybertruck down the palm tree-lined boulevard. It was around 8 a.m.

That’s why High Country News is teaming up with local and national partners to create a West-wide corps of environmental reporters to work in local newsrooms: the Western Environmental Reporting ...

A spokesperson for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission wrote that the agency was still in the process of amending the framework for radiation protection, adding that “public health and safety will ...

Thank you so much for the excellent article by Laureli Ivanoff (“ Iditarod idol ,” March 2026). Every word was rich and meaningful. Care is soft, in tune, perceptive, understanding, responsive. We can ...

A sheep herder near Boulder, Utah, he said that over the past decade, mountain lions — also called cougars — have killed ...