Wildfires across the West have renewed concerns over the fate of water quality in the aftermath. Fire retardants used to slow the spread of a blaze add to the worries.

Some populations of scarlet monkeyflowers can evolve fast enough to save themselves from climate change-induced drought. This is the first time researchers have documented evolutionary “self-rescue” ...

Her husband spent years working in Carbon County’s namesake coal mines. In this pocket of central Utah, energy and the ...

Armed Border Patrol agents raided a protest camp in Lochiel, in southeast Arizona, making way for contractors to cut down the last standing cottonwood tree Monday morning for a double border wall, ...

Steve Edwards, chairman of the Swinomish Tribal Community at Lone Tree Point, on the Swinomish Reservation in Washington. Credit: Jovelle Tamayo The Smokehouse Tidal Marsh project on the Swinomish ...

The longest-running study on breeding ducks has given Montana state biologists the highest-resolution dataset to aid in the bird’s survival.

Sixty cats were found on an abandoned 40-foot sailboat anchored off Point Defiance Park in Tacoma, Washington. “It started out as a welfare check,” Officer Shelbie Boyd told KUOW. The Tacoma Police ...

Cait Quirk writes about socio-environmental restoration and community impacts of climate change. She holds a master’s in environmental humanities and lives between the Oquirrh and Wasatch Mountains.

After a 71-day protest, the last of the 100-plus-year-old trees was cut down southeast of Tucson.

Finding a four-leaf clover feels like a moment of improbable luck; having a dog is a long, sustained luck you don’t recognize until you realize how extraordinary the ordinary days have been.