In early November, Texas-based New Era Energy & Digital announced plans to build a “hyperscale,” meaning massive, AI-processing data center complex in Lea County, New Mexico, the epicenter of the ...

After disappointing losses in Alaska and Montana, an Indigenous-led climate case is making strides in New Mexico.

Nearly 40 years after an armed sheriff, anti-LGBTQ activists and a judge’s order shut down the Gay Rodeo Finals, this year ...

The decline isn’t just in Northern California: Across the West, porcupines are vanishing. Wildlife scientists are racing to find where porcupines are still living, and why they’re disappearing. Others ...

BEN RUPERT (DUCK VALLEY SHOSONE-PAIUTE,WASHOE DESCENT) Treasurer of the Nevada Indian Territory Carson City, Nevada ...

Northern leopard frogs were found near the site of what would be one of state’s largest fossil fuel operations.

On Sept. 23, Emily Rees was planting thousands of seedlings of New Mexico vervain, a purple wildflower beloved by pollinators, on the plateau above the Rio Grande Gorge near Taos when she received a ...

THE FIRST ATTEMPTS to restore Mendocino’s streams for coho and other salmon began in the 1960s. Decades of logging in the area’s old-growth forests left woody debris in stream channels, creating miles ...

Fil Corbitt is a nonbinary podcaster whose podcast, The Wind, is made from a desk in the mountains outside Reno. Nearly 40 years after an armed sheriff, anti-LGBTQ activists and a judge’s order shut ...

In the wake of Typhoon Halong, an AI language company wants to hire Native translators, raising questions about data sovereignty.

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Kristen Hayashi, the director of collections management and access at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, said the bird pins are “very iconic to the camp experience,” and one of the ...