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 ...

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

Wildfires like this are increasingly affecting water supplies across the U.S. and creating a compounding crisis that experts in water, utilities and emergency management are only beginning to wrestle ...

SAGUAROS SYMBOLIZE the Sonoran Desert, appearing in classic Western movies and even children’s cartoons. A cactus can grow up ...

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 administration said it will go hunting for cases of wind energy companies unintentionally killing migratory birds — something it has long argued is not a violation of federal law.

Photo illustration by Marissa Garcia/High Country News The expression “at large” means “with great liberty,” or, essentially, having a large amount of space to roam. It’s exactly what ...

Brian Buckbee lives in Missoula, Montana. He is co-founder of The 406 Writers’ Workshop. His stories have appeared in The Sun, The Georgia Review, Mid-American Review, Shenandoah, The Southern ...

On a blazingly hot day in June, amid the rolling hills around California’s Mount Diablo, I caught a glimpse of the American kestrel’s future. It was the tail end of the bird’s fledging ...

Christine Ami is a Diné scholar, associate professor and weaver at Diné College, specializing in Indigenous animal studies, traditional ecological knowledge, cultural arts and epistemological ...