Thirty years ago, in the summer of 1992, Jess Walter was a staff writer at The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington, when he got word of an armed standoff at an isolated mountaintop cabin in ...

A Q&A with Amy Bowers Cordalis about her new book on the multigenerational effort towards dam removal. One year after the largest dam removal project in history, salmon have reached the headwaters of ...

The Fix Our Forests Act, sponsored by U.S. Sens. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., John Curtis, R-Utah, Tim Sheehy, R-Mont., and Alex Padilla, D-Calif., passed out of Senate committee recently in a rare ...

Whether it’s the weaponization of the economy, the future of your health care, or more personal threats to you and your family members, coping techniques are in order. Listening to music also made the ...

Trump is clearly not looking to achieve energy dominance, but rather to exercise his countless grievances and realize some historical fantasy — while, of course, helping fossil fuel executives rake in ...

I am in disbelief after reading “The Pecan Problem” in the September 2025 issue. I don’t think people listened to John Wesley ...

In 2023, Colin Mannex, executive director of Kenworthy Performing Arts Center (KPAC) in Moscow, Idaho, was participating in a humanities panel at Washington State University when he first heard about ...

A federal auction scheduled for June proposes leasing tracts of all three protected Wyoming migration corridors to oil and gas drilling, and it also opens the door to rigs within a now-unprotected ...

Contamination incidents, work outages and declining infrastructure have plagued the site, but the lab remains the linchpin in an effort to modernize the nation’s nuclear weapons.

In Tucson, Arizona, where I live, a remarkable ecological movement has been slowly and quietly building for decades now. Instead of focusing solely on restoring degraded habitat, it encourages ...

HCN ’s Greg Hanscom and board member Andy Wiessner, top left, who was honored at the Boulder event. Top right, former board members Michael Ehlers and Robert Wiggington, and John EchoHawk (below left) ...

Over a thousand people are sheltering across a dozen sites, many rescued by helicopter. Many remote communities were hit by former Typhoon Halong, their runways flooded and access by air or boat cut ...