Are Declining Stocking Rates Underexplored By Scientists?
A new study says researchers could be missing important climate and environmental changes associated with reduced livestock grazing.
By Jake Bolster
ICN Mountain West
The Environmental and Cultural Benefits of Restoring the American Prairie
Interview by Paloma Beltran, Living on Earth
More Children Are Powering Their Own Wheels to School as Part of ‘Bike Buses’
By Tina Deines
An Idaho Bird Research Station Rises From the Ashes of a Wildfire
By William von Herff
The Year in Climate: Attacks on Science, the Start of Trump’s Second Term and Surging Electricity Demand Foreshadow a Future Filled with Uncertainty
By Dan Gearino, ICN Staff
Could Rescinding The Roadless Rule Make It Harder To Delist Yellowstone Grizzlies?
By Jake Bolster
NCAR, Major Climate Research Center, Targeted for Closure in Trump Dispute with Colorado
By Marianne Lavelle
Hope—and Many Fears—Follow in the Wake of Trump’s Plan to Transform Wildland Firefighting
By Kiley Price
Wyoming Ranchers Hoping Solar Can Lower Costs Say Utilities and the State Stand in Their Way
Story and photos by Jake Bolster
Trump Administration’s Threats to Shrink or Eliminate National Monuments Could Endanger Drinking Water for Millions
By Wyatt Myskow
‘Renewable’ No More: The Trump Administration Renames the National Renewable Energy Laboratory
By Dan Gearino
In Burned Forests, the West’s Snowpack Is Melting Earlier
By Mitch Tobin, The Water Desk
Reintroduced Carnivores’ Impacts on Ecosystems Are Still Coming Into Focus
By Jake Bolster
‘It’s Not Too Late’: New Cornell Study Maps the Environmental Cost of AI and How Policy Could Limit the Damage
By Carl David Goette-Luciak
A Disease-Carrying Mosquito Has Landed in the Rocky Mountains Where It Historically Couldn’t Survive
Story by Erin Douglas, photos by Isabella Escobedo
Is Burying the Trees Killed by Wildfires a Climate Solution?
By Elisabeth Kwak-Hefferan
States and Nonprofits Are Helping National Parks Run During the Shutdown. Could Their Efforts Backfire?
By Jake Bolster
Western States Brace for a Uranium Boom as the Nation Looks to Recharge its Nuclear Power Industry
By Jake Bolster, Dylan Baddour, Wyatt Myskow
