In 2020, the population count of the Behren’s silverspot was zero. That didn’t stop Clint Pogue.
Scientific Research
Meet the scientists and conservationists fighting to save the Northwest’s forests from an invasive plant.
Researchers discovered recently burned areas emit more methane gas than the rest of the landscape.
Harmful algae blooms, fueled by warming temperatures and nutrient runoff, plague the state.
In the 1930s, two women risked their lives to record a scientific survey of the region’s plants.
In March, conservationists worldwide celebrated the historic agreement, which governs the ocean waters where salmon spend most of their lives.
A new study uses archaeological science and Indigenous knowledge to show how the species arrived in the Americas earlier than previously thought.
Post-Roe, startups help those seeking abortions shrink travel distances and carbon emissions.
In the Rockies, chronic wasting disease can devastate herds; scientists are looking for solutions.
Engineers struggled to keep snow geese away from Montana’s deadly Superfund site, but ecologists have a new plan.
A community science project reintroduces humans to their fellow mammals.
Drought can stress trees to death, but heat’s effects are less known. New research could hold the keys to protecting conifer forests.
When faced with new research on health risks in Butte, the agency turned to industry for guidance.
It may depend on how you see the world.
A new report highlights recovery solutions to fires, droughts and other climate catastrophes.
Scientists say collecting and studying the carcasses felled from wind and solar facilities can unlock new insights.
A new study explores how packs change when activities like hunting and car accidents kill wolves.
The rundown on what scientists find actually works to protect forests and homes.
Over the past decade, they’ve destroyed 246% more homes and buildings.
As the Colorado River crisis worsens, an unregulated housing development faces a reckoning.
That could doom the state’s plan to fight climate change with the help of nature.
‘You can’t put half a whale in a little home freezer.’
Officially, the U.S. and Mexico share 11 groundwater basins. A new map bumps that figure up to a stunning 72.
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