The 74 million-year-old fossil of Walter the hadrosaur brings paleo-tourism to Craig, Colorado.
How a dinosaur is redefining a rural coal town
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.
After the feds accidentally burned down their homes, they made it hard to return
FEMA told survivors of the largest wildfire in New Mexico history that it aimed to put temporary housing on their land. But because of its strict, slow-moving bureaucracy, that has happened only twice.
Biden’s push for power lines
Can a flurry of new power lines tame California’s solar conundrum?
Dwindling sea ice and rising Arctic ship traffic may bring unwelcome visitors to King Island, Alaska
Members of the King Island Native Community see potential threats to their food security and cultural resources.
San Carlos Apache call for international intervention over copper mine at Oak Flat
At the U.N., leaders describe the destruction of Indigenous sacred sites as a ‘major human rights violation.’
