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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

A Q&A with Amy Bowers Cordalis about her new book on the multigenerational effort towards dam removal. One year after the largest dam removal project in history, salmon have reached the headwaters of ...

Tanvi Dutta Gupta’s writing and reporting appears on underground murals, in Bay Nature and Science, and on her mother’s Facebook page.

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