Gritty, ongoing reportage delivers an important message: The fundamental problem with nuclear energy — its incredibly dangerous waste products — remains unsolved.
Editor's Note
In New Mexico, tourism illuminates a violent atomic past and threatens a religious sanctuary.
And remember that what your teachers told you is likely wrong.
Environmental laws are one way to force people to consider their actions.
Why would any magazine editor include Los Angeles in a special issue on environmental sustainability?
The blue gum eucalyptus and its cousins are not especially invasive, making it harder to agree on their management.
When trees change due to the planet’s shifting climate, we change too.
Alaska’s Bristol Bay can teach us how to preserve what we still have and to restore what we’ve lost.
Converting an old mine to a physics lab in Lead, South Dakota, is just one example of how towns change directions due to deliberate actions as well as random chance.
Even as the Southwest teeters on the edge of a radically drier future, a rare opportunity to revive the Colorado River Delta has emerged in an agreement hashed out between Mexico, the U.S. and some of West's most powerful – and thirsty – water agencies.
The Fort Sill Apache want to build a casino in New Mexico, but established gaming tribes oppose their efforts.
This special books & essays issue considers the ways in which we use maps, literal and metaphoric, to understand a landscape.
A conservative movement embracing rooftop solar seems to be emerging.
The story behind this issue's cover feature, about a startling dinosaur discovery in Montana and ensuing scientific controversy.
Current conservation practices haven't helped the desert tortoise in the Mojave.
There are hints of progress in the long-lasting stalemate over some of Utah's -- and the world's -- most spectacular landscapes.
Latino farmworker communities in California's Central Valley suffer from polluted drinking water -- and High Country News can't ignore it.
In many Western communities, the more careful you are with land-use planning and wildlife conservation, the less you're doing for worker housing.
A primer on the inner workings of the electric grid.
An HCN editor reflects on the many changes around Coeur d'Alene.
The Northwest Forest Plan, no 20 years old, faces pressures new and old, with no easy fix in sight.
Climate change will transform both the Arctic and the Mojave Desert, but for different reasons
Editor’s note for HCN’s second annual special issue on travel in the West describes some quirky personal trips.
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