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 ...

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

Wildfires like this are increasingly affecting water supplies across the U.S. and creating a compounding crisis that experts in water, utilities and emergency management are only beginning to wrestle ...

Julie Green painted the last meals served to people sentenced to die in an attempt to humanize capital punishment.

Diné activist Nicole Horseherder’s long quest for equity from the rise and fall of the coal economy.

Rebels with a Lost Cause Gale Norton and James Watt Both had stints with Mountain States Legal Foundation, then served as secretaries of Interior, where they pushed for general deregulation ...

At the fourth annual Hanford Journey, Yakama Nation youth, elders and scientists share stories about a land that is a part of them.

In 2023, the complexity of the environmental issues that impact Native communities took center stage. The unique legal, political and economic hurdles tribal nations face in protecting their land ...

In Micah McCarty’s art, the past and future are one, and the whales never left.

Before the pandemic, the cedar plankhouse called Cathlapotle would have been full of stories and fire. Every winter, the Chinook Indian Nation and neighboring tribes hold their annual gathering ...

Confused about what’s happening on the Klamath? Dams, salmon, irrigation and more.