Climate-related disasters are causing more and more damage, resulting in higher insurance claims and payouts and, ultimately, higher premiums.

Thanks to environmental groups’ efforts to protect and restore habitat in the Carrizo Plain, native species such as the giant ...

This story was originally published by Grist and is republished here by permission.

When Oregon’s short legislative session convenes in early February, conservation advocates will once again try to convince lawmakers to pass a major funding bill that could provide nearly $30 million ...

Alaska Native tribes and activists will use previous momentum to try and keep a road from being built through caribou migratory paths, subsistence harvest areas and remote Indigenous land. Over a ...

Tumbleweed seeds came to North Dakota from the Russian Empire in a shipment of flaxseeds in the 1870s. Seeds then accompanied settlers across the West, falling out of railcars to grow along train ...

The buyers plan to transform 40 acres of fire-scarred land into a sustainable, Indigenous-led farm.

For decades, the farmers had diverted rivers and dried up a huge lake to grow hundreds of thousands of acres of crops south of Stockton, resulting in catastrophic losses of fish and birds. Finally, ...

This piece is part of a special project on deep time examining what the Western U.S. was like thousands, millions and even billions of years ago, and how that history is still visible and ...

On a chilly December morning in northern Arizona, near the town of Page, Nicole Horseherder stood beside a barbed-wire fence, waiting for the smokestacks of the Navajo Generating Station to fall. The ...

The Oath Keepers paramilitary organization, which supported the Bunkerville standoff, “weaponized patriotism in an effort to subvert American democracy,” Jackson told NPR in 2022. And they didn’t stop ...

This story was produced in partnership with Capital B News. Like thousands of other Black Americans, Tiffany Hawkins’ grandparents, Earnest and Mattie Lee Johnson, left the Jim Crow South in the 1950s ...