Lucy Benavidez Garwood was 13 years old when the Trinity atomic bomb test was detonated at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, 50 miles from her home in Tularosa, on July 16, 1945. A ...

Los Alamos National Laboratory plans to use over a million gallons of water per day for A.I. and nuclear weapons research and production.

Thank you for Ollie Hancock’s gentle, proud, plain-spoken essay (“ Transition point ,” April 2026).

Sofie Hecht is a documentary photographer based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, since 2019. Her projects are committed to uplifting community resilience, honoring individual agency through the ...

I think of them as the Earth expressing its love. I’m not what you might call a religious person, but I do believe that the Earth gives loving energy. When I discover a heart-shaped rock, my own heart ...

A new novel brings many longtime subscribers together to ponder an age-old question.

The federal government ordered Flaming Gorge water released and cuts to Lake Powell releases, to prevent collapse.

In absence of federal meetings, nonprofits step up to hold public comment on Forest Service plan to lift protections from ...

Understanding the ecological consequences of the March 2026 heat wave across the West will take years, but research on a 2021 ...

To better understand the on-the-ground impacts, High Country News reporters and editors spoke with the leaders of intertribal coalitions, commissions and Native-run community organizations across the ...

Wildfires burned more than 1.9 million acres in Oregon in 2024. By the time they finally died down at the end of October, the ...

Delegates are arriving in New York for the world’s largest gathering of Indigenous peoples, despite the U.S. presenting challenges for attendees to secure visas.