The Arizona Corporation Commission has come under scrutiny for its continued support of fossil fuels and resistance to supporting more solar in the state. Three seats could make the difference.

A program that pays rice farmers to create wetland habitats is a rare conservation win.

Note: All visuals by Evan Benally Atwood. Story and voiceover by B. ‘Toastie’ Oaster. It’s mid-September, when Portland transitions from cutoff T-shirt season to cozy hoodie weather. The nights are ...

Paul Kiefer is a freelance journalist and was born and raised in Washington. He has covered homelessness among poultry workers in rural Delaware, addiction medicine and incarceration in the Pacific ...

“Resiliency is traditionally defined as the ability to recover from some manner of ecological disturbance in some time frame. But that’s not what ecosystems do,” Kaufmann says. “Say a forest fire ...

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If you have climbed a peak or hiked in a golden aspen forest, paddled a protected river or visited a cultural site on any of the hundreds of millions of acres of public national forest land, there’s a ...

Madhvi Chittoor has had a hectic summer. For months, the 13-year-old has attended hearings, reviewed environmental assessments and emailed government officials. She wants to stop Civitas, a ...

Hualapai tribal members and supporters marched through Phoenix, Arizona in September to protest the BLM's approval for more drilling near the Ha'Kwame' hot spring. Credit: Ash Ponders / High ...