There’s a new sea-lebrity making waves at Pier 39 on San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf: Chonkers, a 2,000-pound Steller sea lion. But just what makes this dock-lounging, barking, yawning pinniped ...
A family of javelinas encounters the U.S.-Mexico border wall near the San Pedro River in southeastern Arizona. Credit: Matt Clark, Defenders of Wildlife This story was originally published by Sierra ...
Profligate waste and perverse tax incentives are drying up the West’s largest natural body of water. Utah’s beloved Great Salt Lake is a hotspot of biodiversity and supports a $1.9 billion diversified ...
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A trans Venezuelan asylum seeker details 44 days inside one of the country'sdeadliest detention centers — and why she refuses ...
The Old Trails Fire burned through the city’s northwest corner — an area considered outside the highest risk zone.
Responding to years-long drought in the west, the federal government is cutting water supply for lower basin states on the ...
The administration wants to open 3 million acres to mining claims and oil and gas leasing at the expense of the landscape.
I toss the corn pollen at my feet, just as my relatives have done before me and like everyone who comes after me will do. We have done this since, well, forever. Along the corn pollen trail, I met Deb ...
New construction of the border wall at the southern terminus of the Continental Divide Trail, a 3,100-mile long-distance trail that stretches from Canada to Mexico. Credit: Courtesy of the CDT ...
The Colorado River flows below Glen Canyon Dam in this image from 2021. Credit: Caitlin Ochs Last week, the federal government ordered emergency measures to prevent water levels at Lake Powell from ...
This story is a collaboration between bioGraphic, an editorially independent magazine about nature and conservation powered by the California Academy of Sciences, and YES! Magazine, a nonprofit and ...
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