Peter O'Dowd

Mt. Graham is known as a sky island, a mountain ecosystem surrounded by a “sea of desert.”

Scientists believe there are only a few hundred black-footed ferrets still living in the Western United States. The carnivores once thrived on the plains between Canada and Mexico, but humans plowed up their habitat, and diseases like sylvatic plague reduced their numbers even further.

The number of visitors to Las Vegas in 2025 dropped by nearly 8% compared to the year before, according to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. Officials say a drop in international tourists and concerns about the economy are to blame.

Snowfall in Colorado's Rocky Mountains is far below average this winter.

Birds of prey are often fatally injured by power lines.

A new obesity drug that Eli Lilly is researching but hasn't approved is turning up online, even though it's not supposed to be available.

Those first stamps made it easier than ever to communicate, but early on people weren't quite sure how to use them.

An injured red-tailed hawk recently appeared near host Peter O'Dowd's neighbor's front yard. The rescue organization that's treating the bird suspects it was electrocuted by a power line.

From beauty treatments to medical procedures, U.S. culture is obsessed with looking and feeling younger.

Esther Phillips was a hugely popular teenage R&B singer who, in 1962, recorded the top-10 hit "Release Me."