And climate change’s fingerprints are all over it. The water year started off on a rainy note, especially in the San Juan River Basin in southwestern Colorado, the source of one of the Colorado ...

Armed Border Patrol agents raided a protest camp in Lochiel, in southeast Arizona, making way for contractors to cut down the last standing cottonwood tree Monday morning for a double border wall, ...

Wildfires across the West have renewed concerns over the fate of water quality in the aftermath. Fire retardants used to slow the spread of a blaze add to the worries.

Her husband spent years working in Carbon County’s namesake coal mines. In this pocket of central Utah, energy and the ...

Steve Edwards, chairman of the Swinomish Tribal Community at Lone Tree Point, on the Swinomish Reservation in Washington. Credit: Jovelle Tamayo The Smokehouse Tidal Marsh project on the Swinomish ...

Some populations of scarlet monkeyflowers can evolve fast enough to save themselves from climate change-induced drought. This is the first time researchers have documented evolutionary “self-rescue” ...

A trailer parked near the border of Bureau of Land Management and National Forest lands north of Nucla, Colorado. Credit: Luna Anna Archey Colorado’s vote next month on whether to amend the state ...

The longest-running study on breeding ducks has given Montana state biologists the highest-resolution dataset to aid in the bird’s survival.

Sixty cats were found on an abandoned 40-foot sailboat anchored off Point Defiance Park in Tacoma, Washington. “It started out as a welfare check,” Officer Shelbie Boyd told KUOW. The Tacoma Police ...

Cait Quirk writes about socio-environmental restoration and community impacts of climate change. She holds a master’s in environmental humanities and lives between the Oquirrh and Wasatch Mountains.

After a 71-day protest, the last of the 100-plus-year-old trees was cut down southeast of Tucson.