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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

Alka Tripathy-Lang is a geologist and science writer based in Chandler, Arizona.

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

Jovelle Tamayo is a Filipinx American documentary photographer and visuals editor based in Seattle, Washington.

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 ...

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