Search results for

A message to Nature Notes listeners: if the movie Alien, the 1979 sci-fi classic, gave you nightmares, this isn't the episode for you.“There are,” as…

Henry Thoreau is a touchstone in environmental thinking, and he pioneered a form of political resistance still employed today. But for the last decade of…

The white sands of the Chihuahuan Desert – which, in the U.S., are found at their namesake national park in New Mexico, and near the Guadalupe Mountains –…

“Without leaving home,” the Tao Te Ching says, “you can know the whole world.” It's a lesson the covid pandemic has taught many of us, who've found our…

When it comes to understanding the deep history of human life in the Americas, our region has played a pivotal role. Sites on the plains of West Texas and…

“You can never hear enough sound of wind in the pines,” the writer Gary Snyder says in a poem. It's like a vast breath, enthralling as crashing surf. In…

On the prairies and deserts, in the cities and towns, sweet bursts of melody are announcing spring's arrival in West Texas. As the poet Gerard Manley…

As a return to air travel accelerates, some remember its conveniences, others its hassles. There are also surprising moments of beauty from the air. A…

“Oh, how I wish I had the power to describe the wonderful country as I saw it then.”James B. Gillett entered West Texas in the 1870s, as a Texas Ranger.…

This year's summer rains have transformed our region, to stunning effect. Many ephemeral lakes – including the life-giving playas of the West Texas plains…