Former national park supervisor explains why toilets may be clean this summer, the parks themselves are actually ‘hollowed out.’ ...

Mass federal layoffs the Trump administration has planned can move forward immediately, after the U.S. Supreme Court lifted ...

Fire destroys and fire creates, according to firefighters-turned-authors River Selby and Kelly Ramsey, who fought wildland fire as hotshots and lived to come out on the other side, irrevocably changed ...

As tourism season begins, trail crews are facing disruptions in key trail maintenance projects.

Fine art, downtown markets and natural aesthetics bloom at the Heard Museum as Phoenix’s cultural institution springs forward with Native artists.

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The time-honored tradition of humans looking to the natural world can help us survive difficult times.

The buyers plan to transform 40 acres of fire-scarred land into a sustainable, Indigenous-led farm.

Confused about what’s happening on the Klamath? Dams, salmon, irrigation and more.

What happened when two experienced hikers got caught in the Bolt Creek Fire.

“For salmon people, a juvenile fish kill is an absolute worst-case scenario.” This spring, the Klamath Basin is already in extreme and exceptional drought — one of the worst drought years in ...

This story was originally published by Searchlight New Mexico and is reproduced here with permission. In the Permian Basin, now the most prolific oil field in the world, hundreds of miles of ...