As tourism season begins, trail crews are facing disruptions in key trail maintenance projects.

The time-honored tradition of humans looking to the natural world can help us survive difficult times.

Mass federal layoffs the Trump administration has planned can move forward immediately, after the U.S. Supreme Court lifted ...

The border wall, a centerpiece of President Donald Trump’s agenda, cuts through a rugged, unique ecosystem home to hundreds of native species, from jaguars and pumas to black bears and deer. These ...

OARRA collects samples of dead animals’ lungs, brains, blubber and more, compiling a biological library of clues for researchers around the country. The data helps scientists learn more about what’s ...

Benji Jones is an environmental correspondent at Vox, where he covers biodiversity loss and climate change.

He has also helped develop agrivoltaics projects all around the world, working with communities in Kenya, Mexico, Morocco and elsewhere. High Country News’ twice weekly email newsletter includes our ...

A Diné writer confronts how to offer a hand from far away as tragedy strikes on the Navajo Nation. It was the last day of ...

Reclaiming Chinese culture through cultivation.

Angie Kang makes art in LA. She is the author and illustrator of OUR LAKE (Kokila, 2025), and her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Believer, Narrative and elsewhere. In 2023, she was ...

Climate change is creating a mental health crisis in Phoenix. A budding movement in the desert might solve it.