Are the Great Salt Lake scientists alright?
A Q&A with Great Salt Lake Institute Director Bonnie Baxter on studying a dying lake.
Is Biden a public-lands protector?
The administration makes the biggest land-management moves in a half century.
The Recovering America’s Wildlife Act is still a bipartisan unicorn
As a competing bill emerges, supporters defend RAWA as the ’gold standard.’
Indigenous people rush to stop ‘false climate solutions’ ahead of COP29
The next international climate meeting could make carbon markets permanent. Indigenous leaders call for a moratorium before it’s too late.
These Washington nurses want their hospital to be more like Oregon
Nurses at PeaceHealth Southwest, in Vancouver, Washington, protest unsafe staffing and pay.
When dams come down, what happens to the ocean?
A long-term study of the Elwha River Delta reveals lasting change — and a healthier ecosystem.
Can ice climbing bring life to an isolated Colorado town in the dead of winter?
Lake City’s ice-climbing park is transforming the local economy.
At UN, Interior says it’s starting to include consent in tribal policy
The Indigenous-led department is a ’shining star’ when it comes to tribal consultation, but it still has a long ways to go.
Nevada tribes push for a monument to commemorate historic massacres
The proposed designation of Bahsahwahbee National Monument would protect a religious site known for its juniper groves.
Drilling for oil on public land is about to cost a lot more
Long-awaited Interior Department policy will raise financial assurance and royalty rates.
Your guide to the 2024 UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
This year’s gathering of global Indigenous leaders, activists and policymakers puts a spotlight on youth.
Allegations of Wyoming wolf torture trigger calls for penalty reform
Currently, illegally possessing warm-blooded wildlife in the state is punishable by only a $250 citation.
More than a year later, a record storm still thwarts subsistence food harvests in Alaska
Destroyed boats, gear, berries and more left some Alaskans reliant on expensive store-bought food and neighbors.
The untold history of Japanese American bird pins
They were one of the most ubiquitous crafts to come out of Japanese incarceration camps. But few knew their back story — until now.
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Water
Cattle are drinking the Colorado River dry
A new law seeks to tame mineral extraction at the Great Salt Lake
The dangers of PFAS — and of downplaying their ubiquity
Wildlife
For these mammals, migration is a means of survival
Managing predators from the sky
Pleistocene Park, flamingo eggs and a very cute baby rhino
Public Lands
The great solar build-out
Could building on public land address the housing crisis?
The good, the bad and the ugly of the state legislative season
Indigenous Affairs
Wenatchi-P’squosa people demonstrate against proposed solar project
The complex case of growing native plants
How states make money off tribal lands
Communities
Meet the women fighting to end detention and deportation in Washington
Conozca a las mujeres que luchan por acabar con las detenciones y las deportaciones en el estado de Washington
A border need not be a wall
Books
Reflections on Barry Lopez
During climate chaos, a witness and champion of the West
How kung-fu heroes can grow our climate consciousness
In the News
Glen Canyon revealed
What comes next for Lake Powell?