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.
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?
In late August, Steve Rubin, a fish biologist with the United States Geological Survey, will dive into the frigid, briny water of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, roughly a mile from the mouth of the Elwha River. It will be Rubin’s 12th dive at the site since the Elwha Dam was breached in 2011,…
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.
Wenatchi-P’squosa people demonstrate against proposed solar project
The Badger Mountain development in eastern Washington threatens heritage foodways on sacred lands.
How Western ports anchor U.S. supply chains
The Baltimore bridge collapse highlights the nation’s dependence on the shipping industry.
Meet the women fighting to end detention and deportation in Washington
La Resistencia is working alongside people in immigrant detention to shut down the Northwest Detention Center.
Conozca a las mujeres que luchan por acabar con las detenciones y las deportaciones en el estado de Washington
La Resistencia, un grupo de base en el noroeste del Pacifico, trabaja junto a personas detenidas para cerrar el Centro de Detención del Noroeste.
For these mammals, migration is a means of survival
Will Westerners repair a fractured landscape for mule deer, pronghorn, and elk?
Reflections on Barry Lopez
Terry Tempest Williams contemplates her friendship with the late author and what he left behind.
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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
Managing predators from the sky
Pleistocene Park, flamingo eggs and a very cute baby rhino
Climate change is happening too fast for migrating birds
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
The complex case of growing native plants
How states make money off tribal lands
Can affordable housing for Indigenous communities work?
Communities
A border need not be a wall
California’s transgender Latinx people find refuge and empowerment in community
Fighting climate change by fighting racism
Books
During climate chaos, a witness and champion of the West
How kung-fu heroes can grow our climate consciousness
The epic history of the Endangered Species Act
In the News
Glen Canyon revealed
What comes next for Lake Powell?