The day after the OMB directive, the EPA complied, cutting off the disbursement of federal funds for all of its programs.

The book and the film used the limits of human bodies to cultivate empathy for the experience of other beings.

He reached into cracks and peered into crevices with a flashlight, hoping to find an endangered marine snail whose shell recently has become California’s state seashell: the black abalone. Seven ...

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, who was banned from nine tribal reservations, will oversee policies uniquely important to ...

The county was supposed to conduct an annual tally of people experiencing homelessness this month. Then disaster struck.

Some of the jobs roped into the American Climate Corps have funding locked down for much of Trump’s term. Zampaglione’s ...

After years of negotiation with the Episcopal Church, over 200 cultural items finally come back home.

To reimagine our relationship with wildfire, we must recognize the real value of federal wildland firefighters — and ...

I GOT INTO the environmental restoration business by accident. After military tours at sea and in Iraq as a Marine grunt and sniper, I demobilized back to Salt Lake City, where my family had relocated ...

FIRE IS A NATURAL PART of Western ecosystems, and many forest species crave its disturbance and the resulting regeneration. But starting in the mid-to-late 1800s, the federal government banished ...

North Dakota sued the Interior Department at least five times under Gov. Doug Burgum. Now he’s set to run the agency.

The poet Rachel Richardson learns, through writing and motherhood, to defy fear. Sign up to receive High Country News ’ email newsletters and get on-the-ground reporting and investigations delivered ...