On Sept. 23, Emily Rees was planting thousands of seedlings of New Mexico vervain, a purple wildflower beloved by pollinators, on the plateau above the Rio Grande Gorge near Taos when she received a ...

In the wake of Typhoon Halong, an AI language company wants to hire Native translators, raising questions about data sovereignty.

After migrating to Canada, a journalist reckons with the grief and gratitude of having left.

THE FIRST ATTEMPTS to restore Mendocino’s streams for coho and other salmon began in the 1960s. Decades of logging in the area’s old-growth forests left woody debris in stream channels, creating miles ...

Meanwhile, retaliatory tariffs have seriously dampened hay and meat exports from Western states, especially those going to China. In September, there were 8% fewer drilling rigs operating in Western ...

In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.

Peek behind the scenes at the challenges and joy of covering Fire in the Mountains.

The all-seeing eyes of the aspens observed us but didn’t judge, unlike the government eyes that now may be watching.

Basin states have had 2 years to figure out how to share the shrinking river. Will they get there before the feds step in? On the day of a Nov. 11 federal deadline for states to submit a water ...

The bigotry displayed when white supremacists disrupted a Pride celebration in Centralia repeats a pattern that dates back to 1919.

Alaska Native tribes and activists will use previous momentum to try and keep a road from being built through caribou migratory paths, subsistence harvest areas and remote Indigenous land. Over a ...

In late August 2018, in the heat of one of the warmest and driest years on record in the Four Corners country, under a blanket of smoke emanating from wildfires burning all over the place, I piloted ...