Mountain West News Bureau

Mountain West texters are more likely to bring up self-harm in crisis conversations than Americans at large.

A U.S. representative calls for an investigation into the site that would house Open AI.

From Spokane, Wash. to Pueblo County, Colo., fast-moving fires have again wreaked havoc in neighborhoods this summer. Now, a network of scientists, fire professionals and other experts have joined forces to seek research-based solutions to the problem.

Learning declines as students suffer mentally and physically in hot environments.

So-called process based restoration (PBR) has a number of ecological benefits. But it can make ecosystems more resilient to wildfires when they come, and better able to recover in their wake.

Giant sequoias only grow naturally in California today. But they once ranged as far east as Colorado, Wyoming and Nevada, before the climate turned drier and pushed them into their current, narrower range.

Museums have often been a place where colonial stereotypes are upheld, but a new generation of Indigenous professionals is working to change that.

An approval for permitted outfitters to use gas-powered machines to clear trails highlights a clash between access and preservation.

Thanks to a creative partnership this summer, the trail got a big facelift because the previous web of informal, hiker-made paths wasn’t built to withstand the hordes of people descending on it.

Warmer, wetter-than-average conditions projected for September and October could keep mosquito populations active later into the fall, extending the period of highest risk, especially for states like Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah.