As the data center buildup outpaces the energy transition, modern technology is ever more dependent on oil, gas and coal deposits that took millions of years to form.

The agency’s plan would narrow water quality reviews and eliminate one of the few ways that tribes can their enforce treaty rights.

When Oregon’s short legislative session convenes in early February, conservation advocates will once again try to convince lawmakers to pass a major funding bill that could provide nearly $30 million ...

House Democrats are demanding an ethics probe into the high-ranking Interior appointee over her financial ties to the massive ...

Learning how pronghorn survived the climate changes that ended the ice ages anddrove so many other large mammals to ...

Government-issued maps offer a promise for safely exploring our public lands, but they no longer reflect the reality of what’s actually on the ground.

The film adaptation of Denis Johnson’s novella, Train Dreams, reflects the beauty, and heartache, of working in the forests of the Pacific Northwest.

Mysterious driftwood high in Grand Canyon caves hints at the legacy of Arizona’s huge impact crater.

Each of these books can, in its own way, teach readers how to think about Earth's history, and how to apply lessons from the past to our future.

This piece is part of a special project on deep time examining what the Western U.S. was like thousands, millions and even billions of years ago, and how that history is still visible and ...

In its first year, the second Trump administration has rolled back protections across a swath of high-profile public lands in Alaska.

Evan Howell is a Colorado-based journalist covering earth sciences. He holds a master’s degree in geology and spent a decade as a senior geologist. Mysterious driftwood high in Grand Canyon caves ...