The Sonoran Desert in southern Arizona is hot and sandy. But where the Santa Cruz River flows, you’ll find something like an ...

At the beginning of 2025, a new tragedy struck the Pacific Northwest’s endangered Southern Resident orca population. Tahlequah, a mother orca known scientifically as J35, made national headlines for c ...

In response to the announcement of a waiver of the 1995 Settlement Agreement (which protects the Snake River Plain Aquifer and forbids the import of commercial nuclear waste to Idaho), the Snake ...

The Snake River Headwaters Watershed Group is already bearing fruit. For a year and a half, the wide-ranging assortment of river stakeholders and state and federal officials has been working ...

BOISE, Idaho — The Idaho Department of Fish and Game has lifted a hunting, fishing and trapping closure on a section of the Snake River that had been in place for more than 18 months due to an ...

The Millers said they aren’t against the idea of recharging the Eastern Snake River Plain Aquifer as farmers ... Birrer to the south and west. Google maps view of the Birrer’s property on ...

BOISE, Idaho — Southern Idaho's sprawling Snake River Plain has been harboring a distinct species of squirrel that's emerged from the underground. Researchers have identified a new species of ...

The Snake River winds more than 1,000 miles from Wyoming, through Idaho, and into Washington, where it meets the Columbia River, which empties into the Pacific Ocean. 1 The Snake and Columbia ...

Gray areas are underlain by ash flow deposits from calderas of the eastern Snake River Plain area that predate the Yellowstone ... in patterns of earthquakes and eruptive vents. Seismicity maps show ...

Federal agencies will take a new look at the findings of a four-year, $55 million federal study completed in 2020 that rejected calls to tear down the four lower Snake River dams. A coalition of ...