THE FIRST ATTEMPTS to restore Mendocino’s streams for coho and other salmon began in the 1960s. Decades of logging in the area’s old-growth forests left woody debris in stream channels, creating miles ...

Tanvi Dutta Gupta’s writing and reporting appears on underground murals, in Bay Nature and Science, and on her mother’s Facebook page.

Three new species of snailfish were discovered thousands of meters deep “along the abyssal seafloor offshore of California,” thanks to a joint effort by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute ...

The all-seeing eyes of the aspens observed us but didn’t judge, unlike the government eyes that now may be watching.

After migrating to Canada, a journalist reckons with the grief and gratitude of having left.

Peek behind the scenes at the challenges and joy of covering Fire in the Mountains.

In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.

Meanwhile, retaliatory tariffs have seriously dampened hay and meat exports from Western states, especially those going to China. In September, there were 8% fewer drilling rigs operating in Western ...

Caitlin Ochs is a visual storyteller and National Geographic Explorer focused on creating compelling, authentic visual narratives that inspire people to learn more about the world and illuminate ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...