On a muggy July day, volunteers marched the half mile from Eugene, Oregon’s Sierra Club office to City Hall, chanting, “Climate change is here to stay, and billionaires have g ...

The Hoover Dam impounds the Colorado River and forms Lake Mead, pictured in 2022. Arizona has joined Nevada's lawsuit against the Trump administration's 10-year plan for managing the drying Colorado ...

An appeals court hearing could determine whether feds reconsider Endangered Species Act protections for wolves across the West.

New Mexico’s Elephant Butte Reservoir was nearly full on June 2, 1994 (left), in contrast with very low levels on July 27, 2026 (right). NASA Earth Observatory/Michala Garrison On July 11, the Rio ...

A trailer parked near the border of Bureau of Land Management and National Forest lands north of Nucla, Colorado. Credit: Luna Anna Archey Colorado’s vote next month on whether to amend the state ...

Her husband spent years working in Carbon County’s namesake coal mines. In this pocket of central Utah, energy and the ...

This story was originally published by Slate and is republished here through a partnership with Climate Desk. Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary wants to bring the world’s largest A.I. campus to Utah. Over ...

The western stretch of the Arkansas River, which flows from its headwaters in the Rocky Mountains across the plains of southeastern Colorado, is in trouble. That trouble is compounded by uncertainty ...

Sometime in late June or early July, in a part of western Wyoming informally called the Golden Triangle, sage grouse start to roam. Moms and chicks relocate from dry, harsh desert to higher, greener ...

The headwaters of the Klamath River are the ancestral territory of the Klamath Tribes, which include the Klamath, Modoc and Yahooskin, according to Tribal Chairman William Ray Jr. “(The water) comes ...

The buyers plan to transform 40 acres of fire-scarred land into a sustainable, Indigenous-led farm. The Tlaa Deneldel Community Group, a Nenana organization focused on food sovereignty and cultural ...

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