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 ...

Faith Kearns is the scientist and director of research communication for the Arizona Water Innovation Initiative at Arizona State University.

The understudied mycorrhizal fungi are vital to ecosystems and may prove critical to the survival of fragile deserts stressed by climate change.

She co-founded a Whatcom County chapter of the Rainbow Coalition. Later, as part of the United Farm Workers of America, she led negotiations to win a union contract for farmworkers at the Chateau Ste.

The 30-year-old national service agency had tens of thousands working on climate change, conservation and disaster response in communities across the West.

Shi En Kim is an editorial fellow at HCN covering science, environment and society. Feel free to email her at [email protected] to speak with her about these topics and more or submit a letter to ...

It had nothing to do with augury. I held the cell phone high into moonlight, playing the cry of a tawny owl. Merlin obliged, but it also had nothing to do with magic. It was data. The magician an ...

The keystone species’ habitat in New Mexico is threatened by wildfire prevention and the climate crisis.

A methodology of our two-year inquiry into the origin of wealth that undergirds the nation’s system of higher education.

Tribal officials say the process threatens cultural resources and what remains of healthy Indigenous foodways.