To make change, leaders say the U.N. system needs to do a better job elevating Indigenous voices.
At U.N. forum, Indigenous leaders say colonialism and market forces are destroying the planet
Orientalism and the West at Denver Art Museum
The museum’s ‘Near East to Far West’ exhibition asks critical questions about the colonial context of Western art but misses something important.
Inside the fight to save a beleaguered butterfly
In 2020, the population count of the Behren’s silverspot was zero. That didn’t stop Clint Pogue.
Tenacious specimens of the Grand Canyon
In the 1930s, two women risked their lives to record a scientific survey of the region’s plants.
How a dinosaur is redefining a rural coal town
The 74 million-year-old fossil of Walter the hadrosaur brings paleo-tourism to Craig, Colorado.
Where the first spring harvest relies on a still-frozen ocean
In coastal Western Alaska, wildlife and humans alike rely on good, thick ice.
Climate change is changing public health
In Washington, a new team of epidemiologists is preparing for a hotter, smokier future.
Seeking sanctuary on a warming planet
Scientists look to identify, map and preserve climate change refugia.
Who gets a say in tribal treaty hunting?
In Wyoming, everybody wants influence over off-rez hunting — and nobody’s happy.
Alaska Natives are underserved by emergency translation services
A FEMA contractor’s incompetence in Alaska Native languages highlights a systemic problem.
‘We need to touch the earth’
#iamthewest: Giving voice to the people that make up communities in the region.
Good drones, coyote living and a cow-chip lottery
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
The spirit of the Rillito
‘New animism’ seeks a connection to nature’s pulse.
The illusion of discovery
How understanding our past can strengthen our future.
Meet up with the HCN community
And send us your bumper sticker ideas!
The many ways to see a story
Acclaimed Indigenous author Debra Magpie Earling returns with a new novel.
The artist and the harpooner
In Micah McCarty’s art, the past and future are one, and the whales never left.
A climate heist and revenge movie
‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’ stands firm in its sympathetic framing of its protagonists, and then asks you to evaluate yourself.
