On a muggy July day, volunteers marched the half mile from Eugene, Oregon’s Sierra Club office to City Hall, chanting, “Climate change is here to stay, and billionaires have g ...

An appeals court hearing could determine whether feds reconsider Endangered Species Act protections for wolves across the West.

Finding a four-leaf clover feels like a moment of improbable luck; having a dog is a long, sustained luck you don’t recognize until you realize how extraordinary the ordinary days have been.

The Grand Canyon State is suing over Trump administration rules that would sharply reduce the amount of water Arizona receives from the river.

Her husband spent years working in Carbon County’s namesake coal mines. In this pocket of central Utah, energy and the ...

Wildfires across the West have renewed concerns over the fate of water quality in the aftermath. Fire retardants used to slow the spread of a blaze add to the worries.

Steve Edwards, chairman of the Swinomish Tribal Community at Lone Tree Point, on the Swinomish Reservation in Washington. Credit: Jovelle Tamayo The Smokehouse Tidal Marsh project on the Swinomish ...

She and her family had taken their boat and two dogs out on the Columbia River near Portland, Oregon, in August 2024 to celebrate her birthday, a summer ritual as important to them as fireworks on the ...

Kate is on her third tour with HCN. She started as an intern back in 2015 and became an assistant editor later that year. For the next four years, she helped HCN build out our Indigenous affairs team, ...

Ruben Martinez painted a heartfelt tribute to his mentor and friend, Gary Paul Nabhan, with prose that carried me into the very heart of the troubled landscape of the Arizona Borderlands (“Desert Sage ...

Update: After this story was published, the Forest Service released a map showing Pitkin County would manage roughly 1,300 acres. The Maroon Bells, a beloved destination for hikers and sightseers in ...