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The resilience of the elusive vaquita
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (440+ words) The Gulf of California, just four hours from my home in Tucson, Arizona, is a wonderful place to escape to during hot landlocked summers. We know little about them: Adults can reach five feet and frequent shallow coastal waters, eating…...
Emails show Interior delivered new drilling permits for Burgum's billionaire ally
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (904+ words) This story was produced by Public Domain and Fieldnotes and is co-published here by permission. Hamm has not been shy about trumpeting his relationship with members of the Trump administration " particularly Burgum and Energy Secretary Chris Wright, who he has…...
The facade of the Red Wind commune
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (790+ words) In a grainy, undated video, a camera focuses on an elderly man with braided gray hair and a red headband festooned with feathers. The video, Grandfather Speaks, claims to feature the teachings of the "last full-blooded Chumash" in California " Semu…...
Sam the Toucan, capybaras over coffee, Vellela vellela and a mechanical rhino
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (631+ words) High Country News Stay informed about the West. It's not hard to see Elvis when you're in Vegas " or, if not the real guy, a half-dozen or so elaborately costumed impersonators. Recently, however, an exotic toucan stole the spotlight, at…...
Controversial gas pipeline across Navajo Nation to begin
4+ day, 11+ hour ago (1102+ words) This story was originally published by Capital & Main and is republished here by permission. A 234-mile stretch of pipeline'that could carry natural gas or natural gas-hydrogen blends across the Navajo Nation is a step closer to reality. The resolution passed…...
The plight of the pine cone cowboy
5+ day, 11+ hour ago (428+ words) There is a lot of trust that goes into this work," Keeley said, speaking over the wind. He eyed a cluster of green, egg-sized cones. Trust in the trees, predominantly, but also trust in the system " that I'm being sent…...
The dark legacy of the atomic age is still playing out in New Mexico
1+ week, 1+ day ago (309+ words) When something's arbitrary, then it's not justice." " Tina Cordova We went on with our liveslike nothing happened'until everybody started dying." " Lucy Benavidez Garwood If they've lived in New Mexico all their life and they got cancer (the government) should either…...
The Earth loves in species
1+ week, 1+ day ago (120+ words) As I examine each pebble, turning it over in my palm, I make a wish: That all beings be honored for who they are and the gifts they possess. That all have shelter and food. That there will be enough…...
What happens when we die?
1+ week, 1+ day ago (179+ words) Specifically, Fay had imagined that, rather than being embalmed or burned into so many greenhouse gases, her body could be left out to "be eaten by crows and coyotes and shat back into the soil to bloom as a trout…...
Letters to the Editor, May 2026
1+ week, 1+ day ago (284+ words) AN ESSAY WORTH READING Thank you for Ollie Hancock's gentle, proud, plain-spoken essay (Transition point," April 2026). If we destroy this planet, I believe the C-suite of species will survive: cockroaches, coyotes, crows. And now I will add flies to my…...