The Arizona Corporation Commission has come under scrutiny for its continued support of fossil fuels and resistance to supporting more solar in the state. Three seats could make the difference.

A program that pays rice farmers to create wetland habitats is a rare conservation win.

If you have climbed a peak or hiked in a golden aspen forest, paddled a protected river or visited a cultural site on any of the hundreds of millions of acres of public national forest land, there’s a ...

This investigation is a collaboration with Grist. On a wet spring day in June, fog shrouded the Mission Mountains on the Flathead Indian Reservation in northwest Montana. Silver beads of rain ...

Throughout much of human history, fire has been a source of comfort, warmth — even inspiration. Only when the flames eclipse our control and threaten the things we prize do we hasten to ...

Madhvi Chittoor has had a hectic summer. For months, the 13-year-old has attended hearings, reviewed environmental assessments and emailed government officials. She wants to stop Civitas, a Denver ...

Ten years ago, hundreds of people gathered in a dusty wash underneath a freeway overpass 80 miles east of Las Vegas, near the town of Bunkerville, Nevada. They arrived at the behest of a reedy ...

Jess peered over my shoulder at my handiwork. I sat at her kitchen counter in Lander, Wyoming, clutching a Sharpie and scribbling the names of wild game dishes on sheets of computer paper folded ...

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In Indian Country, major election years bring a deluge of messaging that “voting is sacred,” as then-Congresswoman and current Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said during the 2020 Democratic ...