In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.
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Posted inOctober 2025: Limits to Growth
Watching the Oregon ash vanish
The emerald ash borer is killing the native tree. How do we make the most of the time while it’s still here?
Posted inOctober 2025: Limits to Growth
In a changing Arctic, how much noise is too much?
Alaska’s bowhead whales can hear the climate changing. Scientists are listening in, too.
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In rural New Mexico, kids paint a sonic portrait of their ghost town
Madrid was once a booming coal town. At radio camp, its youngest inhabitants had big questions about its past — and present.
Posted inAugust 2025: Fire Culture
Native languages need radio, which is at risk of being lost
As public media is threatened after cuts from Trump administration, Indigenous radio also face threats to how they preserve and grow language.
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Inside Colorado’s famous resort for Black Americans
Colorado was once a beacon for members of the Harlem Renaissance and Black families from all over the country.
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What defunding public media would mean for the West
Data show that rural, tribal and Western stations would be most impacted by Trump’s attempt to cut CPB funding.
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Audio: Under the shade of a nurse tree
Sacrificing for the benefit of other species.
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Audio: The trill of hummingbirds adapting
Scientists find that Western birds are changing their behavior alongside the climate.
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Culture that impacted our sense of the West
Some books, happenings and other cultural endeavors that helped expand our sense of place in 2024.
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Audio: How nature can thrive despite human impact
What disturbance-loving plants teach.
Posted inNovember 2024: The Once and Future Prairie
Where does the horse come from?
A poem by Blas Falconer.
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Audio: What do we really learn from trail cams?
Documenting wildlife can bring us back to nature.