The largest tidal restoration project in the Sacramento Delta’s history awaits the return of the threatened Delta smelt.

But while Andrews and thousands of Angelinos were racing to evacuate, other people saw a financial opportunity. Using ...

Documents show the Oklahoma governor’s connections to the tribe may have originated in an act of fraud more than 100 years ago. In a statement to a local television station the day after our story ...

A century-old Oregon water law lets one wealthy region turn the desert green while water-starved ag fallows commercial crops.

On Tuesday, for the first time in U.S. history, the House Natural Resources Committee held a hearing to consider co-managing federal lands with Indigenous tribes. Such a collaborative arrangement ...

For more than 100 years, salmon had been absent from the Klamath Tribe’s lands — a fact that cut them off from funding ...

That was one of the inspirations behind the Western Environmental Reporting Collaborative (WERC), a partnership with the national nonprofit Report for America and local news organizations across the ...

This story is the final chapter of a series focusing on how Missoula and its surrounding communities are grappling with challenges of sustainable growth. (If you haven’t yet, check out the first of ...

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This story was originally published by The Guardian and is republished here through a partnership with Climate Desk. The record-breaking heatwave scorching the West this week would have been ...

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Reimagining Community in the Age of Disconnection (Beacon Press), presents communal living as a practical remedy for affordability issues, familial strife, and loneliness.