A former national park supervisor explains how toilets may be clean this summer, but the parks themselves are actually ‘hollowed out.’
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Finding your ancestors in the archives
Author Joseph Lee explores Wampanoag family history in a new book of memoir and reportage.
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Trump administration budget cuts wreak havoc on trail maintenance
As tourism season begins, trail crews are facing disruptions in key trail maintenance projects.
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In stressful times, what do the plants and animals have to say?
The time-honored tradition of humans looking to the natural world can help us survive difficult times.
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Mass layoffs can move forward, with devastating impacts for conservation and science
‘Shortsighted’ cuts could eliminate bird banding program, federal bee research and much more.
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Meet LA’s detective for dead marine mammals
A day in the life of a scientist studying the aftermath of the city’s deadly algal blooms.
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See what trail cams captured about Borderlands wildlife
Alongside stunning footage, scientists found that the border wall deters wildlife.
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Why isn’t agrivoltaics taking off in Arizona?
Logistical hurdles and a lack of solar incentives keep panels and plants apart.
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In Sitka, Łingít fishers share herring harvests with a surprise influx of grey whales
An unprecedented whale surge in Alaska waters has changed how humans interact with a vital yaaw fishery.
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When wildfire hits your doorstep
A Diné writer confronts how to offer a hand from far away as tragedy strikes on the Navajo Nation.
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In Albuquerque, developers are turning old motels into affordable housing
Once-dilapidated buildings are finding new life as homes for immigrants and other working-class New Mexicans.
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The Trump administration is asking park rangers to rewrite history
And some national park site staffers are pushing back.
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Public land sale a ‘frontal assault on tribal treaty rights’
Senate Republicans’ proposed legislation could have unique impacts on tribal nations.
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MAGA and the developers are coming for your public lands
Sen. Mike Lee slips federal land privatization provision into Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill.”
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Protests greet Western governors in Santa Fe
After a bipartisan outcry, Senate proposal to sell public lands is blocked for now.
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The Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe is bridging Nevada’s healthcare gap
A new mobile clinic serves 2,000 Indigenous patients.
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What Sonoran Desert fungi are teaching scientists
The understudied mycorrhizal fungi are vital to ecosystems and may prove critical to the survival of fragile deserts stressed by climate change.
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When we harm wolves, we harm ourselves
Anger over these wild creatures shows a lack of perspective.
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Trump quits deal with Northwest tribes to restore salmon
The plan to remove four hydroelectric dams in the Columbia River Basin that blocks the free flow of salmon was canceled.