Learning how pronghorn survived the climate changes that ended the ice ages anddrove so many other large mammals to ...

It was early March 2025. The last embers of the Palisades Fire had been out for a month. It was cold, gray and drizzling. A ...

The U.S. Senate passed a limited spending package on Thursday that will largely fund several science- and land-related ...

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

Recent studies found that attitudes toward wolves became more polarized when people’s political identities were activated.

We each are shaped by the things around us, our parents, education and the journeys we take. And it is geology that perhaps has shaped me the most, growing up in a place with rocks the size of ...

The federal government allows livestock grazing across an area of publicly owned land more than twice the size of California, making ranching the largest land use in the West. Billions of dollars of ...

An urban geologist goes to downtown Seattle and finds a rangeof rocks rivaling any assembled by plate tectonics.

Barron Bixler is a social-environmental documentary photographer, filmmaker, designer and writer. He is creative director at Princeton University’s Blue Lab, a media production studio he co-founded in ...

After 40 years of service and 80 years on Earth, Andy Wiessner — wilderness warrior, land wheeler-dealer and longtime friend to High Country News — is stepping off our board of directors.

Humanity has long sought enlightenment at the top of mountain peaks. But ice cream is also a goal worth achieving, as folks who hiked up Colorado’s 14,000-foot Huron Peak on Labor Day weekend ...

Despite the geologic and paleontological significance of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, federal government management is hindering its full research potential.