MY HEART SANK at the sight of my friend Avery's mountain bike, its wheels in the air, the handlebars resting in the hot, sandy soil of Colorado's Uncompahgre Plateau. Avery was fine—there'd been no ...

Conservationists are lobbying the Bureau of Land Management to overhaul its policies in the Colorado Plateau after the agency’s own study indicated big alterations are coming over the next 50 years ...

Imagine 1776 in the western United States, the clip-clop of exhausted horses, the paltry clouds of dust they kicked up, strangers in a strange and raw land along a tributary to a river we know as the ...

The Epic Journey of Geology 310's Crew, Summer 2008 Traipsing in the Blue Ridge. Scuttling about that incredible granite exposure at Richmond’s Belle Isle. A departmental trip to the Potomac River’s ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Researchers are working on a mapping project that will chronicle climate change, population growth, oil drilling and other factors in an area that stretches across Arizona, Colorado ...