The landmark law has served as both sword and shield.
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Posted inDecember 1, 2023: December 2023
North Denver’s green space paradox
Will a billion-dollar infrastructure project heal a Colorado community — or displace its residents?
Posted inDecember 1, 2023: December 2023
Take a toxic tour of the Great Salt Lake
Utah grapples with its future of industry around its dying inland sea.
Posted inDecember 1, 2023: December 2023
Horrible holly: A festive plant runs amok
Meet the scientists and conservationists fighting to save the Northwest’s forests from an invasive plant.
Posted inDecember 1, 2023: December 2023
A momentous trade illuminates what’s true
A writer hopes to prove that there’s real labor that goes into her craft.
Posted inDecember 1, 2023: December 2023
Home for the holidays
I hope you and yours are having a happy holiday season. I’m relishing being settled with family and friends. The past few months have been a whirlwind, visiting donors, hanging out with readers, spending some quality time with High Country News staffers in Paonia, Colorado, and making a special side trip to Laramie, Wyoming. When […]
Posted inDecember 1, 2023: December 2023
How to not save a species
Has the speed of change outpaced the ability of environmental laws to make a difference?
Posted inDecember 1, 2023: December 2023
The Endangered Species Act by the numbers
Half a century of wins and losses.
Posted inDecember 1, 2023: December 2023
How the New Mexico whiptail became a gay icon
All members of the lizard species are female and reproduce asexually through a process called parthenogenesis.
Posted inDecember 1, 2023: December 2023
Has Montana solved its housing crisis?
A spate of new state laws will spur housing development. Will anyone be able to afford what’s getting built?
Posted inNovember 1, 2023: November 1, 2023
California’s Central Valley chinook are getting lost on their way home
The culprit is a tactic designed to save them – one that could decrease the species’ resilience in the long run.
Posted inNovember 1, 2023: November 1, 2023
Encountering HCN
Readers describe how they first ran into the magazine in the wild.
Posted inNovember 1, 2023: November 1, 2023
The climate crisis is pushing Washington’s prisons to the brink
Why not let people out?
Posted inNovember 1, 2023: November 1, 2023
California’s affordable housing contested under the guise of environmentalism
In Eureka, the California Environmental Quality Act is used to target projects that benefit low-income people.
Posted inNovember 1, 2023: November 1, 2023
Eating the ecosystem
It’s possible to eat your way to a more sustainable future.
Posted inNovember 1, 2023: November 1, 2023
Kasigluk endures the many challenges of thawing permafrost
Residents of the Alaska village maintain community in the face of climate change.
Posted inNovember 1, 2023: November 1, 2023
When burn scars become roaring earthen rivers
Geologists in Washington are monitoring scorched forest to help create a better warning system for deadly debris flows.
Posted inNovember 1, 2023: November 1, 2023
Beauty is always bigger than the pain
A writer finds what she needs on a snowy walk through a cherished and familiar landscape.
Posted inNovember 1, 2023: November 1, 2023
Contemplating Cormac McCarthy
On pain specific to America and artistic influence.
Posted inNovember 1, 2023: November 1, 2023
Letters to the editor, November 2023
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