Environmental science

Utahns are turning everyday wildlife sightings into powerful data for scientists. From birding to herping, community science is helping track species and support conservation across the state.

Utah has 15 endangered Mojave desert tortoises up for adoption. Once taken from the wild, they can’t return — but in the right home, they can live for decades.

Today we talk with Tony Juniper about his new book "Just Earth: How A Fairer World Will Save The Planet."

The Bridgerland Audubon Society Christmas Bird Count is always hosted on the first Saturday on or following December 14th, and we have been contributing Cache Valley, Utah data to the National Audubon database since 1956.

For all of human history, the deep ocean has been a source of wonder and terror. Now, cutting-edge technologies allow scientists and explorers to dive miles beneath the surface.

Climate change has become an unavoidable fact and an ongoing catastrophe. The science was clear decades ago. How did so many Americans come to doubt evidence so widely accepted and compelling?

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

Michael White, a former faculty member at Utah State University, is now a senior editor for climate science at Nature, one of the most important academic journals on the planet. He presented a talk in March at USU about the history of weather forecasts and the impending use of artificial intelligence.

We talk with Wayne Wurtsbaugh, professor emeritus in the Watershed Sciences Department at USU and Jack Greene, nature educator and regular contributor to UPR’s Wild About Utah.

Large saline lakes, like Great Salt Lake, provide essential habitat for migrating birds across the Americas.