Pitkin County, Colorado, will take over management of the Maroon Bells scenic area, following Forest Service budget cuts and staffing cuts.

My father dedicated his life to studying the Guna people of Panama, and they may soon allow unprecedented development through their land. I went on a trek through the jungle to find out why.

At a Colorado cold lab, scientists race to better understand hail in a warming world.

While ranchers support eliminating federal protections for wolves, data shows the predators kill few cattle. Trump’s lifting of tariffs on foreign beef, however, is hitting cattlemen’s wallets.

The National Park Service is under pressure to make an unprecedented deal that cedes a quarter-mile strip of the park.

Standing Rock increased division in North Dakota between Indigenous communities and nearby non-Indigenous communities. Propaganda made it worse.

What new analysis of more than 300 bear encounters shows about the notion of dogs as early bear alarms or deterrents.

If everyone talks more with the people in their lives about climate change and climate impacts, all those conversations add up, helping to mobilize support for climate action.

Or: screenshot grief and the dialectic of woo

These real, breathtaking images offer a rare glimpse into the lives of grizzly bears in the mountains and valleys around Haines Junction

Colorado's Front Range Passenger Rail District revealed detailed cost and service plans as it prepares for a final vote on seeking a new sales tax.

Fire survivors say “it’s morally reprehensible,” and experts worry the wagering could lead to arson.

All the efforts to rewild a Northern California stream leads to salmon rewilding themselves.

What if all you knew was extremist politics? Welcome to being young in America.

Rehearsing for humanity’s future on Mars

Burrowing Owl cam in north-central Oregon, located on a former U.S. Army Chemical & Weapons Depot now being restored as a critical wildlife habitat. Here, a network of artificial burrows, built fr...

In the Trump administration’s reorganization of the struggling agency, painful echoes of BLM’s past moves.

Critics say the state's attempt to boost ungulate populations lacks scientific grounding and transparency.

A Mexican athlete said he was kidnapped and forced to compete for his life in a tournament of gangs. But was he actually playing a different game?

From his remote cabin in the once snowier hinterlands above Gothic, billy barr tracks decades of warming, snow-starved winters

States’ stalemate persists as Lake Powell races toward de facto deadpool.

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

Learning from a reviled and inspiring weed.

Ansel Adams took one of his most famous nature photos while documenting the American citizens of Japanese ancestry who were imprisoned at Manzanar during World War II. Our country is both the darkness...

Five ways dismantling NCAR will cost the American people, and two ways to save it.

Deep time and how geology shapes us all.

If you’ve seen the phrase time immemorial used repeatedly in Indigenous affairs reporting, there are some compelling reasons why.

The sport may seem selfish, but it reminds us why good snowpack matters.

Almost two years after reintroduction began, wolves are nearing the state’s southern and western borders.

The sport may seem selfish, but it reminds us why good snowpack matters.

Scientists are racing to figure out why porcupines are disappearing from their former stomping grounds.

In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.

Trump is killing clean energy, and it’s not even helping fossil fuels.

From wildly popular to nearly forgotten, some of our cemeteries play an unexpected role in fostering biodiversity — and may provide climate solutions, too.

National monuments across the West face unprecedented threats, making public voices and vigilance more crucial than ever.

The Trump administration’s plans would remake the agency and public lands. The deadline to comment is Sept. 30.

Firefighters were caught in a pyro-vortex last month on the Deer Creek Fire.

Consolidation, shifting politics, water rights and the myth of the cowboy all play into the region’s ability to feed itself.

Madrid was once a booming coal town. At radio camp, its youngest inhabitants had big questions about its past — and present.

Around the West, community land trusts are helping people recover from disaster — and prepare for the next one.

From simple searches to chatGPT, the big digital buildup threatens the grid and water supplies.