The Rio Grande’s flow, when it exists, is not nearly enough to supply the Mesilla Valley’s commercial farmers. To make up for the surface water deficit, pecan (and alfalfa) growers pump groundwater at ...

We were producing to just barely feed ourselves. And now that commerce has been globalized, big companies are taking over ...

Consolidation, shifting politics, water rights and the myth of the cowboy all play into the region’s ability to feed itself.

And British Columbia’s premier, David Eby, threatened to place tolls on commercial trucks traveling from the U.S. through B.C. to Alaska along the Alaska Highway. Doing so would further increase the ...

The Department of Interior has such a wide-ranging set of duties that it’s sometimes referred to in Washington, D.C., as “the ...

The Trump administration, however, is poised to divert hundreds of millions of dollars away from LWCF land purchases and spend it instead on routine maintenance at national parks and other federal ...

Firefighting veterans believe the management team overseeing fire crews played a key role in handing team members over to immigration authorities.

A wildfire rarely creates its own tornado, or pyro-vortex. (Fire whirls, a fire tornado’s little brother, are more common and are smaller, briefer and less intense.) Two key ingredients must first be ...

THE MOTUS NETWORK was the brainchild of Philip Taylor, a biologist at Acadia University in Nova Scotia. Automated radio telemetry was already being used underwater to track salmonids, and Taylor ...

In this special issue, HCN partners with the Food & Environment Reporting Network to untangle the web of food production in ...

Madrid was once a booming coal town. At radio camp, its youngest inhabitants had big questions about its past — and present.