Some populations of scarlet monkeyflowers can evolve fast enough to save themselves from climate change-induced drought. This is the first time researchers have documented evolutionary “self-rescue” ...

Sixty cats were found on an abandoned 40-foot sailboat anchored off Point Defiance Park in Tacoma, Washington. “It started out as a welfare check,” Officer Shelbie Boyd told KUOW. The Tacoma Police ...

Armed Border Patrol agents raided a protest camp in Lochiel, in southeast Arizona, making way for contractors to cut down the last standing cottonwood tree Monday morning for a double border wall, ...

The Trump administration’s interpretation of “harm” under the ESA could devastate the recovery of imperiled species, many which have cultural,spiritual and relational meaning and importance for tribal ...

She and her family had taken their boat and two dogs out on the Columbia River near Portland, Oregon, in August 2024 to celebrate her birthday, a summer ritual as important to them as fireworks on the ...

The longest-running study on breeding ducks has given Montana state biologists the highest-resolution dataset to aid in the bird’s survival.

Cait Quirk writes about socio-environmental restoration and community impacts of climate change. She holds a master’s in environmental humanities and lives between the Oquirrh and Wasatch Mountains.

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