Nature Notes

Their social dynamics are intricate, and their legacy on the planet dates back some 150 million years. Ants can go unnoticed – underfoot as they are – but…

Their social dynamics are intricate, and their legacy on the planet dates back some 150 million years. Ants can go unnoticed – underfoot as they are – but…

Drew Stuart For the first half of the show, Diana Nguyen speaks to Drew Stuart.Stuart is the producer for the Marfa Public Radio series " Nature Notes"…

Listener Josh Knight asked West Texas Wonders whether the meteor crater in Odessa was actually produced by a crash, and, if so, what ecological impact…

Listener Ken Richards has always noticed the unique fragments and features of the Big Bend. "I assume some of that, a lot of that, moved around by…

What kinds of turtles live around Marfa? The question comes from Nathan Stueve. The answer we found surprised us. For this episode, West Texas Wonders is…

JD DiFabbio isn't the only listener who's asked Marfa Public Radio about the status of horny toads in West Texas. She wants to know the current…

Marfa's Adele Powers asked West Texas Wonders about a natural phenomenon that touches the lives of everyone and everything in the region, literally --…

When it comes to one plant found in abundance across West Texas, Big Spring native Alan Cox wants to get the story straight. He asked Marfa Public Radio:…

They're uniquely austere landscapes, in a famously austere region. Across the Chihuahuan Desert, exposures of gypsum create white dune fields, badlands,…