Environment

There’s a mystery surrounding the embattled monarch butterfly’s ways in Southwest Colorado, and researchers across the country are asking residents here to help solve it. Each fall, millions of...

Multiple events are scheduled for the second annual Colorado Public Lands Day to be held Saturday. The goal of the events is to give back to the environment and promote public lands for all to use....

Monte Miller shovels a load of coal into a bucket and makes the short journey from his storage shed to his home on the edge of Bayfield, joking aloud that his wife likes to keep the temperature at...

Results are in from the latest Cortez Bird Count, and they reveal some surprises about the feathered folk of Montezuma County. On Dec. 30 in Cortez and the surrounding area, about 30 bird-watching...

If you live on the grid in downtown Durango, it’s likely you’ve heard the late-night hooting of an owl off in the distance. And thanks to one Durango resident, those bird calls might be here to...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Environmental groups are appealing a federal judge’s dismissal of their lawsuit aimed at shutting down a coal-fired power plant and adjacent mine near the Arizona-New Mexico...

Mountain Studies Institute and Southwest Conservation Corps continue to wage war against the Russian olive, an invasive species that chokes out native trees and degrades the quality of the...

Mountain Studies Institute has opened a new center in Silverton to help educate the public about the Animas River and natural history of the San Juan Mountains through exhibits, programs and...

Blue skies and warm weather on Sunday made for a successful 2017 Earth Day Festival held at Rotary Park, said Durango Nature Studies executive director Sally Shuffield. “It’s a really great time...