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.

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

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” ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

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.

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 veterinarian told them that Jax had likely ingested a toxic, algae-like microorganism called cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, from a benthic bloom, a phenomenon scientists began documenting in ...

For the next four years, she helped HCN build out our Indigenous affairs team, cover grazing and public-land use, interrogate the idea of wilderness and prioritize investigative work. Do you remember ...