National Parks

The Sonoran Desert’s iconic species faces an uncertain future because of climate change and drought.

Elected officials and nonprofits groups are wondering why federal workers are being called back from furlough for nonemergency work that aids industry and hunters.

The government shutdown could have long-lasting environmental effects, as could several other actions taken by the administration over the holidays.

Experts fear oil and gas development could permanently damage millions of acres of ecologically and culturally important public lands.

Books on our ballot this month look at wolves, turtles, animal activism, the psychology of climate change and a lot more.

Books coming out this month include a series of terrifying climate-change novellas and a look at the occupation of Oregon’s Malheur Wildlife Refuge.

For 50 years the Land and Water Conservation Fund has helped support thousands of projects across the country, but its funding may be gone by the end of the month.

We have five questions for Shelley Silbert, executive director of the advocacy group Great Old Broads for Wilderness.

As Sec. Zinke prepares to open Grand Staircase-Escalante to mining, experts and business owners say tourism income far outweighs the potential from fossil-fuel extraction.

In Idaho, a breathtaking new reserve promises to preserve the darkness — and shows how other communities can follow.