Around the West, community land trusts are helping people recover from disaster — and prepare for the next one.

The Western Apache and a coalition of environmental groups have fought for years against the Resolution Copper mine, which would become one of the country’s largest at the cost of a site revered by ...

Faith Kearns is the scientist and director of research communication for the Arizona Water Innovation Initiative at Arizona State University.

SAGUAROS SYMBOLIZE the Sonoran Desert, appearing in classic Western movies and even children’s cartoons. A cactus can grow up ...

She co-founded a Whatcom County chapter of the Rainbow Coalition. Later, as part of the United Farm Workers of America, she led negotiations to win a union contract for farmworkers at the Chateau Ste.

Christine Ami is a Diné scholar, associate professor and weaver at Diné College, specializing in Indigenous animal studies, traditional ecological knowledge, cultural arts and epistemological ...

River Selby is a writer and former wildland firefighter. They hold an MFA in creative writing from Syracuse University; they are currently pursuing their Ph.D. Their writing has appeared in the New ...

On a clear day, the trails winding through West Coyote Hills near Fullerton, California, offer a sweeping view of the mountains rising over Orange County’s suburban sprawl. Over 500 acres of ...

A former national park supervisor explains how toilets may be clean this summer, but the parks themselves are actually ‘hollowed out.’ ...

Climate change is creating a mental health crisis in Phoenix. A budding movement in the desert might solve it.

The plan to remove four hydroelectric dams in the Columbia River Basin that blocks the free flow of salmon was canceled.

Utah used actors, AI, stagecraft and NDAs as it sought to sway public opinion and take control of 18.5 million acres of federal public land.