Deformed animals are a great way to get readers' attention, but the Simplot story has been mistold
Items by Stephanie Paige Ogburn
Utility scale coal plants begin to collect their CO2
Ever found balloon detritus when hiking in a pristine wilderness? Michael Branch rants about the airlifted trash he finds in Nevada's high elevation desert, and then decides to dump some of that trash on Utah.
Economists, looking to Australia, float a market-based system for the Colorado Basin
NOAA gets a budget slash; activist appeals sentence; woodpeckers are endangered
Michael Branch muses on Mary Austin, desert loners, and why the inhabitants in his arid part of western Nevada choose to limit their interactions to a few choice syllables. Rants from the Hill are Michael Branch's monthly musings on life in rural Nevada.
The best way to stop a deadly citrus disease may be genetic engineering
Rants from the Hill are Michael Branch's monthly musings on life in rural Nevada. In this Rantcast, Michael Branch muses on holidays and creates a leprechaun trap with his two daughters.
The Food and Drug Administration is forced to confront risks of antibiotic overuse in confined animal feeding operations
The biofuels "corn bubble" and other financial incentives encourage farmers to plow up native grassland in the sensitive Northern Plains prairie potholes ecosystem; government policies don't help.
Scientists piece together the reasons behind a population crash of one of the most endangered species in the world
Breeding drought-resistant crops without genetic modification
One beetle population declines but another grows
The Obama administration's antitrust actions have failed to materialize for those in agriculture
An elite team of Native American customs agents, the Shadow Wolves use their tracking skills to find drug smugglers on the U.S.-Mexico border.
The farmed salmon industry deserves closer environmental scrutiny
Can land managers handle the new Western forest?
When a giant dairy proposed building near Jerry Nivens' beloved New Mexico home, the chain-smoking Texas hermit became an activist who organized other locals to fight the industry.
The U.S. continues to trail the rest of the world in high-speed rail development, as California's long-planned bullet train is delayed yet again.
Jana Hughes, of Hobbs, N.M., does not find dairies to be good neighbors. Janet Claborn, of Muleshoe, Texas, has recruited 14 dairies to her town and sees them as an economic development blessing.
Proposed rule changes that would have made it easier for small-scale ranchers to compete with giant meatpacking corporations just went down in flames.
A USDA effort to level the playing field between giant meatpackers and small ranchers bites the dust
The recent freakout over California's new cost projections ignores realities of infrastructure investments
Despite its toxic contents, Republicans want EPA to back off regulations
The Conservation Reserve Program has encouraged millions of acres of idled farmland to be used as wildlife habitat, but now it may be plowed under by a budget-cutting Congress.
But some politicians beg to differ
The Conservation Reserve Program, which pays farmers to idle highly erodible cropland, is facing budget cuts and other challenges.
"It Gets Better" campaign aims to give bullied teens hope
New documents show pesticide review process flawed
Pipeline plan proves pricey and environmentally damaging
- Botanists find one of ‘the world’s worst weeds’ spreading in the Boise foothills
- Wildfire kills Klamath fish: ‘Everything that’s in there is dead.’
- A new investigation reveals depth of skewed policing in Siskiyou County
- Record rainfall, bears and French toast at Anchorage’s new city-sanctioned homeless encampment
- Scientists unravel the origins of the Southwest’s monsoon
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