What new analysis of more than 300 bear encounters shows about the notion of dogs as early bear alarms or deterrents.

If everyone talks more with the people in their lives about climate change and climate impacts, all those conversations add up, helping to mobilize support for climate action.

Profligate waste and perverse tax incentives are drying up the West’s largest natural body of water. Utah’s beloved Great Salt Lake is a hotspot of biodiversity and supports a $1.9 billion diversified ...

There’s a new sea-lebrity making waves at Pier 39 on San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf: Chonkers, a 2,000-pound Steller sea lion. But just what makes this dock-lounging, barking, yawning pinniped ...

The Old Trails Fire burned through the city’s northwest corner — an area considered outside the highest risk zone.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in Washington, D.C., held a final vote Thursday to decide on the removal of four dams on the lower Klamath River. The vote, which follows the agency’s ...

A trans Venezuelan asylum seeker details 44 days inside one of the country'sdeadliest detention centers — and why she refuses ...

Responding to years-long drought in the west, the federal government is cutting water supply for lower basin states on the ...

A family of javelinas encounters the U.S.-Mexico border wall near the San Pedro River in southeastern Arizona. Credit: Matt Clark, Defenders of Wildlife This story was originally published by Sierra ...

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I toss the corn pollen at my feet, just as my relatives have done before me and like everyone who comes after me will do. We have done this since, well, forever. Along the corn pollen trail, I met Deb ...

New construction of the border wall at the southern terminus of the Continental Divide Trail, a 3,100-mile long-distance trail that stretches from Canada to Mexico. Credit: Courtesy of the CDT ...