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The record-breaking heatwave scorching the West this week would have been “virtually impossible” if not for the climate crisis, a team of scientists has determined.

Wyoming’s Golden Triangle is an ecological wonder, but the management plan protecting it from oil and gas development faces ...

Communities are grappling with the BLM's notice that signals a significant increase in timber harvesting across 2.5 million ...

What was shaping up to be a sleepy election year in Montana is now anything but. It was a head-spinning week in Montana ...

The West becomes more honest, and more durable, when Black cowboys are understood not as symbols or exceptions, but as ...

For years, advocates and leaders in Indian Country have pushed for the creation of a federal commission that would document the testimonies of Indigenous people who survived the boarding schools ...

The Colorado River water crisis isn't hitting everyone equally—century-old water laws mean that some communities face existential threats while others remain secure: these tensions are the heart of ...

A former U.S. Geological Survey research scientist reflects on the Trump administration’s sweeping changes in the agency.

Falen, the agency’s associate deputy secretary, is actively working on grazing matters despite her last-known ethics documents, which disqualified her from doing so.

Caroline Tracey’s debut essay collection documents the decline of salt lakes, and what their strange ecosystems can teach us about confronting the losses of climate change.

Rye Development proposed the current incarnation of the $2 billion to $3 billion facility in 2017. At the time, Klickitat County had already been planning for years to develop pumped hydro storage at ...