Dangerous landslide-triggered tsunamis linked to receding glaciers — which are shrinking globally due to climate change — are on the rise in Alaska.

The federal government is rewriting its rules governing ranching on public lands to increase the number of cattle, sheep and other livestock grazing on 155 million acres in the West, an area twice the ...

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

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

Returning a rare orchid to the wild is a complex challenge, but if these scientists succeed, they’ll blaze a path for future reintroductions.

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 ...

Tim Crandall examines peach trees at Crandall's Fruit Farm, a multi-generational fruit farm in Orem, Utah, in mid-May. On a typical year, an arm's length branch would have 15 peaches on it by mid-May.

It was established so biologists could collect data from bears in captivity to better understand and manage grizzlies in the wild.

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Ted Turner helps a biologist release a couple of wolves on his Ladder Ranch, New Mexico, property in 1998. Credit: William Campbell/Sygma via Getty Images Over the course of his long life, media mogul ...

This winter’s snow cover is the lowest on record in the Western U.S. While that could cause a torrent of trouble come spring — more wildfires, less water for farms and fish — at the moment, there’s ...

Staff and guests gather to receive boxes of donated blankets at the Warming Center, Bozeman, Montana’s only year-round homeless shelter. Credit: Will Warasila/High Country News Last year, a mass of ...