On July 16, 1945, at 5:29 a.m. Mountain War Time, humanity entered the nuclear age with a blinding flash of light in the New Mexico desert. The Trinity test, conducted in the Jornada del Muerto desert ...

A new paper from a team of Cornell University researchers shows that the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 virus causes ...

Growth in Ben Smith's dairy operation isn’t just about expanding the acreage or increasing the number of cows. It's about ...

Descendants of the horses brought to the New World by the Spanish explorers and missionaries in the 1500s, their numbers grew ...

Navajo George Tutt started uranium mining in 1949 as a hand mucker. Hand muckers would procure uranium waste and ore from veins in the mountains, using basic tools like pickaxes ...

Idaho rancher Jay Smith has a wolf problem. Over the last 20 years, Smith said wolves have killed more than 200 of his cattle ...