Anfield first submitted its proposed operating plan in April 2024. The BLM initially found that both the plan and a follow-up application were deficient, and the mine’s progress was halted. But under ...

Documents show Interior rejected a union contract for employees at BLM headquarters days before the inauguration.

Scientists describe how they’re prepare for the upcoming field season despite the challenges. High Country News ’ weekly ...

Migration pathways for animals will be further fragmented by the new additions to the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

High school graduates are the first to walk with the protected right to wear cultural attire after the state of New Mexico passed legislation this spring.

The 30-year-old national service agency had tens of thousands working on climate change, conservation and disaster response in communities across the West.

Trump is on a multipronged mission to eliminate a science agency that conservationists, toxicologists, universities and more call irreplaceable.

Bella Davis is an Indigenous affairs reporter at New Mexico In Depth, a local nonprofit newsroom. She is a Yurok tribal member born in northern California and raised in central New Mexico. High school ...

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When Rose McAdoo visits a glacier, she doesn’t just bring a harness, rope and crampons. She brings a portable camp stove, sugar, powdered whole milk and heavy cream, and a gelatin substitute called ...

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