Former national park supervisor explains why toilets may be clean this summer, the parks themselves are actually ‘hollowed out.’ ...

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Fire destroys and fire creates, according to firefighters-turned-authors River Selby and Kelly Ramsey, who fought wildland fire as hotshots and lived to come out on the other side, irrevocably changed ...

As tourism season begins, trail crews are facing disruptions in key trail maintenance projects.

The time-honored tradition of humans looking to the natural world can help us survive difficult times.

Mass federal layoffs the Trump administration has planned can move forward immediately, after the U.S. Supreme Court lifted ...

OARRA collects samples of dead animals’ lungs, brains, blubber and more, compiling a biological library of clues for researchers around the country. The data helps scientists learn more about what’s ...

The border wall, a centerpiece of President Donald Trump’s agenda, cuts through a rugged, unique ecosystem home to hundreds of native species, from jaguars and pumas to black bears and deer. These ...

Benji Jones is an environmental correspondent at Vox, where he covers biodiversity loss and climate change.

The majority of public land is too fire prone and far away from communities to even make sense for housing, research shows.

Utah used actors, AI, stagecraft and NDAs as it sought to sway public opinion and take control of 18.5 million acres of federal public land.

Data show that rural, tribal and Western stations would be the most impacted by Trump’s attempt to cut CPB funding.