President Donald Trump’s Interior Department is withholding key ethics disclosure information for Karen Budd-Falen, a ...

As the climate changes, ski resorts have begun relying more on machine-made snow, which comes with environmental consequences and limitations.

Trails once quiet, save for the sinuous whoosh of a lone ski line, are suddenly dotted with fresh tracks. Backcountry skiing — long a niche pursuit of hardcore alpinists and telemark nostalgists — has ...

Beth Harrington’s 2025 documentary Our Mr. Matsura uses communally-held memory and traditional research to explore the little-known story of a Japanese photographer who documented the changing world ...

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