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A toxic grass that threatens a quarter of US cows is spreading because of climate change

By Robert Langellier | Climate Change

Stretches of the Mojave Desert, Central Basin and Range, and the Colorado Plateau—each immense ecoregions that help define the West—converge in this landscape, with many plants and wildlife at the edges of their ranges. Plants exist here that are found nowhere else on earth. BLM photo. (CC BY 2.0)

The Public Lands Rule: Can conservation leasing mitigate impacts from energy and mining?

By Dustin Mulvaney | Climate Change

Large tree trunk and trees in snow

O redwood tree, o redwood tree, can tree genetics save thee?

By Jessica McKenzie | Climate Change

How shifting ecoregions due to climate change complicates conservation

By Zach St. George | Climate Change

Australian firefighter inspecting rare tree saved from fire

A rare species of tree was saved from Australia’s wildfires. And something else happened

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change

Small country, big challenge: Switzerland’s upcoming transition to sustainable energy

By D. A. Notter | Nuclear Energy