A new Endangered Species Act petition could trigger major conservation actions to save the West’s saline lakes.

On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that cities and municipalities can punish people for sleeping outside, even when they ...

As night falls on the reservation, another response can be seen in the growing number of homes illuminated by solar power. In an innovative push to replace the hydroelectricity generated by the four ...

So, this spring, Michael, our two girls and I embarked on a road trip from Santa Fe to learn how ranchers are providing habitat, in some cases inadvertently, for the largest shorebird on the continent ...

For decades, downstream residents, advocates and members of the transboundary Ktunaxa Nation — six First Nations and tribes, including the Kootenai Tribe of Idaho and the Confederated Salish and ...

The Chevron decision is a victory for business interests and conservative legal groups, which have fought federal government ...

New rates, including the surcharge for the fire fund, must first be approved by Utah’s public utility commission. If approved, Rocky Mountain Power, the largest utility in the state, could collect ...

I still haven’t gotten that tattoo, nor have I put on a wetsuit to dive into a kelp forest. But in the two years since then, I’ve been immersed in the seaweed’s vital and threatened world, largely ...

Federal rules and a lack of protection for sacred places left the Indigenous nation with an impossible choice.

We named him Lincoln, after the Lincoln Monument off I-80 near the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest. One, because he was the color of a new penny, and two, because the day we met him, he wore the ...

Elizabeth Ferrer is chief curator at BRIC, a multidisciplinary arts organization in Brooklyn, as well as a scholar of Latinx and Mexican photography.

In the Western U.S. today, water is increasingly scarce and valuable; it’s basically liquid gold. The combination of a “first in time, first in right” system for managing water rights — meaning senior ...