A program that pays rice farmers to create wetland habitats is a rare conservation win.

Note: All visuals by Evan Benally Atwood. Story and voiceover by B. ‘Toastie’ Oaster. It’s mid-September, when Portland transitions from cutoff T-shirt season to cozy hoodie weather. The nights are ...

Paul Kiefer is a freelance journalist and was born and raised in Washington. He has covered homelessness among poultry workers in rural Delaware, addiction medicine and incarceration in the Pacific ...

If you have climbed a peak or hiked in a golden aspen forest, paddled a protected river or visited a cultural site on any of the hundreds of millions of acres of public national forest land, there’s a ...

Ten years ago, hundreds of people gathered in a dusty wash underneath a freeway overpass 80 miles east of Las Vegas, near the town of Bunkerville, Nevada. They arrived at the behest of a reedy ...

This year marks the centennial of the Indian Citizenship Act, which theoretically gave Native people the right to vote in U.S ...

Meredith Lawrence is an arts and culture writer and photographer. Her work has appeared in Paste, No Depression, GRAMMY.com, American Theatre Mag, Vox, Brooklyn Mag, Craftsmanship Mag, Alta Journal ...

“Resiliency is traditionally defined as the ability to recover from some manner of ecological disturbance in some time frame. But that’s not what ecosystems do,” Kaufmann says. “Say a forest fire ...

The reservoirs were under threat, and had been for decades.

This month, we look at the upcoming elections from a Western viewpoint. Some Latino organizers in Washington are working on ...

Madhvi became interested in environmental issues at an early age. When she was 5, she watched a documentary about a Pacific island overrun with trash. Birds and nearby aquatic life fed on the plastic ...

Located on a former ranch in western Arizona, the hot spring is framed by rolling desert hills. Though trucks may sometimes drive down a nearby dirt road, it’s mostly quiet. That serenity is an ...