Ecosystems

Scientists studied a rare desert plant near a solar facility in Nevada. After two years, the plant had not only survived, but thrived.

Every time I visit the ranch, I’m reminded of how few places there are in the state of Utah where one could go and experience such tremendous biodiversity.

The Mid-Mountain Connector Trail is intended to be a multi-use trail for the community and overlooks regenerative grazing ranches, construction is set to begin in July

The proposed railroad would transport crude oil from Utah through the Colorado Rockies to refineries in the Gulf of Mexico. The Supreme Court has ruled in the railway developers' favor.

Fire can be a destructive force, but an essential and natural driver of ecosystem functioning in the African savanna. It turns out the savanna both shapes and is shaped by fire. But such a process is difficult to untangle.

Utah researchers are working to restore Green River tributaries with a host of strategies including reintroducing beavers and removing invasive plants.

Beyond the rapture and pure joy they provide, mountain meadows are critical ecosystems- biological hot spots.

Some of Utah's pelicans have found a new home at the Great Salt Lake, after many of the state's pods completely abandoned a long-standing nesting site on another part of the lake last year.

The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources is conducting their annual spring survey of the Columbia Spotted Frog throughout central Utah.

Katharine S. Walter, an assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Utah, joins us today to discuss her recent cover story for The Nation: “The Great Salt Lake Is Becoming Too Salty to Support Life."