Indigenous scholar Dina Gilio-Whitaker wants Natives to approach a difficult topic rationally, vulnerably and honestly.

Residents and communities begin the years-long recovery process after a series of back-to-back atmospheric rivers hammered ...

In comparison, he writes, the 300,000 years since Homo sapiens evolved is so brief that “in a single stroke with a medium-grained nail file you could eradicate human history.” In this special issue on ...

After Cascades frogs vanished from Lassen Volcanic National Park 18years ago, scientists are reintroducing them to the park.

The rare wild commercial Christmas tree harvest endures on the edge of climate change, wildfire and shifting immigration policy, revealing how even our most cherished traditions depend on fragile ...

Anton Sorokin is a California-based biologist, photographer and writer who frequently covers wildlife, particularly overlooked species. With careful site selection and antifungal baths, scientists are ...

Karen Budd-Falen’s family ranching operation agreed to sell water rights to the company developing the controversial Nevada lithium project. Karen Budd-Falen, senior partner at Budd-Falen Law Offices ...

National monuments protect more than 21,000 miles of waterways across the U.S., nearly twice as much waterway mileage as the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, the analysis also determined. The ...

Allen Myers is a Portland-based photographer, filmmaker, and journalist. Founder of Regenerating Paradise, his work explores resilience, labor, and the environment in communities shaped by wildfire, ...

An unusually swift series of atmospheric rivers hit the region, worsened by warm temperatures.

One day in September 2018, as Beth Pratt was hiking in California’s Yosemite National Park, she encountered pile after pile of fresh scat along a creek flowing out of Kuna Lake. She knew it was only a ...

Marie Tosa knows more about the western spotted skunk than almost anyone on Earth. Between 2017 and 2019, as a Ph.D. student at Oregon State University, Tosa trekked all over the H.J. Andrews ...