In an uncommon move, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum intervened in a case that involved the former legal clients of Karen Budd ...

A controversial land swap orchestrated by the mega rich could be ‘a harbinger of what’s to come’ for public lands under Trump ...

The gothic genre, known for its queer roots, is a useful framing in understanding how climate change is haunting us, even when it shows up in beautiful forms.

Over the course of his long life, media mogul and philanthropist Ted Turner bought vast stretches of land in Colorado Montana and Nebraska and managed them for conser ...

In a grainy, undated video, a camera focuses on an elderly man with braided gray hair and a red headband festooned with ...

The western stretch of the Arkansas River is in trouble, compounded by uncertainty about what, exactly, is polluting & drying ...

By then, experts speculated that the vaquita was disappearing fast — the most endangered marine mammal on Earth. IN 1997, there were an estimated 567 vaquitas, and scientists predicted they would be ...

The pipeline would eventually cross 234 miles of tribal land. The hearing initiating the project caught community members off guard.

Oil and gas giant Continental Resources wanted the BLM to sign off on new wells in Wyoming, despite a court injunction there.

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HIGH ATOP A PLATEAU IN NORTHERN NEW MEXICO, Los Alamos National Laboratory is facing its biggest expansion since the World War II-era Manhattan Project, the top-secret government effort to produce the ...

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 ...