The federal government is rewriting its rules governing ranching on public lands to increase the number of cattle, sheep and other livestock grazing on 155 million acres in the West, an area twice the ...

This winter’s snow cover is the lowest on record in the Western U.S. While that could cause a torrent of trouble come spring — more wildfires, less water for farms and fish — at the moment, there’s ...

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For more than 100 years, salmon had been absent from the Klamath Tribe’s lands — a fact that cut them off from funding ...

The largest tidal restoration project in the Sacramento Delta’s history awaits the return of the threatened Delta smelt.

A century-old Oregon water law lets one wealthy region turn the desert green while water-starved ag fallows commercial crops.

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This story was originally published by The Guardian and is republished here through a partnership with Climate Desk. The record-breaking heatwave scorching the West this week would have been ...

Reimagining Community in the Age of Disconnection (Beacon Press), presents communal living as a practical remedy for affordability issues, familial strife, and loneliness.

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