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 ...

While the seven Colorado River Basin states try to reach agreement over how to divvy up diminishing flows in the Colorado River, another crisis lies in the design of Glen Canyon Dam, which is ...

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 ...

After years of missed deadlines, New Mexico is demanding that the Energy Department expedite the cleanup of so-called legacy nuclear and hazardous waste at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the ...

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In 2025, the state of California helped fund at least four initiatives to return land to tribes, adding up to thousands of acres.

Columnist Miles Griffis reflects on the history of queer country dance and its importance to the gay community at a two-step lesson.

Vijay Limaye ia an adjunct associate professor of population health sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Extreme heat, severe weather and air pollution are proven to cause negative health ...

Jonathan Levy is a professor and the chair of the Department of Environmental Health at Boston University. Extreme heat, severe weather and air pollution are proven to cause negative health impacts.