A year after the Eaton Fire, the recovery maps a familiar inequity. Research from UCLA shows Black homeowners were not just ...

It was early March 2025. The last embers of the Palisades Fire had been out for a month. It was cold, gray and drizzling. A ...

The federal government allows livestock grazing across an area of publicly owned land more than twice the size of California, making ranching the largest land use in the West. Billions of dollars of ...

Humanity has long sought enlightenment at the top of mountain peaks. But ice cream is also a goal worth achieving, as folks who hiked up Colorado’s 14,000-foot Huron Peak on Labor Day weekend ...

Barron Bixler is a social-environmental documentary photographer, filmmaker, designer and writer. He is creative director at Princeton University’s Blue Lab, a media production studio he co-founded in ...

If you’ve seen the phrase time immemorial used repeatedly in Indigenous affairs reporting, there are some compelling reasons why.

Recent studies found that attitudes toward wolves became more polarized when people’s political identities were activated.

An urban geologist goes to downtown Seattle and finds a rangeof rocks rivaling any assembled by plate tectonics.

After 40 years of service and 80 years on Earth, Andy Wiessner — wilderness warrior, land wheeler-dealer and longtime friend to High Country News — is stepping off our board of directors.

Alex Burness is a staff writer at Bolts, focused on criminal justice and voting rights issues. You can reach him at [email protected]. In a corner of Alaska, American Samoans are facing ...

Marcia Bjornerud, professor of geosciences at Lawrence University in Wisconsin, studies the physics of earthquakes and mountain building. Her books for popular audiences include Reading the Rocks, ...

Alexander L. Metcalf is an associate professor of human dimensions of natural resources at the University of Montana. Recent studies found that attitudes toward wolves became more polarized when ...