Groups sue to save the Great Salt Lake

From brine flies to brine shrimp to eared grebes to pronghorn and buffalo, the lake supports an exquisite ecosystem whose collapse is literally making people sick.

"Vanishing Oasis" — First-Place Winner of the Yale Environment 360 Film Contest — documents how massive withdrawals from rivers that feed the Great Salt Lake are threatening the survival of millions of migratory birds and creating bare lake beds that generate plumes of toxic dust.

What does Utah stand to gain and lose as open space gets paved over by port development?

Utah Author Terry Tempest Williams discussed her piece on the Great Salt Lake during Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson’s book club event last weekend.

Rounding up the Biden administration’s ups and downs on land policy.

Increasingly, land is shifting into the hands of billionaires.

Far bigger chunks of pristine public lands would be walled off from extraction, as federal land managers are ordered to consider climate impacts of activities on land spanning Eagle, Mesa and Pitkin counties.

The agency reported more than 81 million visits last year, a 40 percent increase over 58 million in 2012.

Will opposing a solar farm blow up Bluff’s boundaries?

After hearing the case for the third time in a decade, the appeals court ruled that the federal government isn’t liable for hazards to critically endangered species caused by the disposal of lead ammunition on federal land.

Glacier Park officials held back-to-back open-house meetings — one on the east side at St. Mary and another on the west side in Columbia Falls — to gather input on the ticketed entry system it has used to manage visitation during the peak summer months.

As visitation grows, GTNP is looking for input on how users view management instead of proposing specific plans like timed-entry or park reservations.

Overflights of wilderness, possible ‘photo flights’ in Grand Teton raise watchdogs’ hackles.

The determination allows the Forest Service to skip a step of the project’s public approval process: soliciting and responding to formal objections before the project is finally approved and implemented.

Forest thinning and controlled burns take away fuel for fires, but the U.S. can only treat so many acres. Which ones to choose?

Communities contend with ongoing air quality issues tied to gas and oil wells.

For the assets, Viper agreed to pay $750 million along with 9.02 million in common stock units, totaling more than $1 billion in cash and stock.

A new study published this month examines how the petrochemical industry in the Permian Basin has deformed the landscape by causing some areas to sink while other areas rise.

Under a settlement agreement reached Friday, the Louisiana company Solenex relinquished the only remaining oil and gas lease on land sacred to Blackfeet traditionalists.

A leading fossil fuel advocacy group has once again proposed a ballot initiative to stop Colorado communities from banning natural gas hookups in new buildings.

The BLM will raise oil royalties, add well insurance and layer other new protections as part of leasing overhaul.

The Seven County Infrastructure Coalition could re-start the two-year environmental review of the project or petition review by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Stakeholders in Colorado are girding for future battles around railroad and hoping passengers can replace petroleum along the mountain line.

Through years of trial and error, the Buffalo Field Office has developed a process to track down and hold accountable oil and gas companies for plugging their own idle wells, to ensure that federal taxpayers don’t have to take on the financial burden of cleanup.

It seems at first glance like a win-win situation. And in some ways and places it is. But there’s at least one loser here, and that’s the San Pedro River valley in southern Arizona.

Plans for Colorado’s largest battery plant in Brighton nearly ran out of juice in the face of strong opposition from neighbors who fear chemical contamination and fires from the planned lithium-ion manufacturing facility.

A group of Chaffee County residents is battling a geothermal plant under consideration near their subdivision.

Ambitious climate action could reap rewards for the No. 1 coal state, one study concludes. But the state economy remains tied to fossil fuels.

Fossil fuels are the primary culprit behind rising electrical costs, utility says, yet lawmakers will consider measures to limit renewables, preserve gas and coal.

A solar energy project in western Alberta was poised to not only power 1,200 homes but innovate a new way to pay for such initiatives, say its backers. But then came the “gut-wrenching” decree by Premier Danielle Smith.

The McDermitt Caldera in Nevada and Oregon could hold up to 100 megatons of lithium. Now companies are proposing a new method for mining it.

The festival's biggest issue may be its opposition to renewable energy in its own backyard.

Park officials are soliciting public comment on the plan, which comes on the heels of a tumultuous year for bison management.

The Southern Ute tribe has successfully grown its bison herd to sustain its bison meat distribution program but is restricted in expanding the herd.

After nearly two years of negotiating, the Biden administration and a coalition of Northwest tribes, environmental groups and other parties agreed Thursday to continue talks that could lead to breaching the Lower Snake River dams in an effort to help endangered salmon recover.

Two local men scouting for hunting opportunities ahead of archery season in the Whitefish Range killed a grizzly bear in self-defense on Aug. 26.

An angler shot and killed a grizzly bear in self-defense this week in the Tom Miner Basin, Montana, Fish, Wildlife and Parks said Friday.

Two men shot and killed a grizzly bear in self-defense while hunting west of Island Park Reservoir Friday.

Famous bruin, cub spotted on private land; wildlife managers urge caution with trash, food.

In 2022, Game and Fish, Teton park and the National Elk Refuge counted a record 708 pronghorn in the Jackson Hole valley and Gros Ventre drainage. This year, officials counted only 79, an 88% decline.

Comments came in from across Wyoming and the country, mostly opposing a proposal to target 50% more mountain lions in areas where mule deer sustained sky-high winter mortality.

A logging project proposed outside of Red Lodge to reduce wildland fires has been delayed once again following a judge's ruling.

Hundreds of locals voiced opposition to the Galloway Lands development near Fernie, B.C. Despite their protests, development is forging ahead, making some residents suspicious of political donations and a developer who emerged from bankruptcy.

The “blab of the pave” disrupts animals’ lives everywhere, even in national parks.

When a GOP megadonor didn’t like the coverage he was getting from Wyoming’s newsrooms, he funded a new one. Now it’s pushing anti-trans talking points and climate misinformation.

The fact that the movement has gotten even this far illustrates the growing tear in the American fabric.

A group focused on shedding more light on the troubled legacy of boarding schools where Indigenous children were stripped of their culture and language as part of assimilation efforts released a new interactive map that includes dozens of additional schools in the U.S. and Canada.

The state is outlining how it could begin to reconcile with a history of separating Indigenous children from their families and communities and forcing them to assimilate into white European culture at schools around the turn of the 20th Century.

In 1885, white coal miners in Wyoming Territory, murdered at least 28 Chinese men and ran the rest of the Chinese out of town at gunpoint. These artworks bring that history back to the present.

In an excerpt from his book “River Notes,” leading anthropologist Wade Davis recalls how the taming of the Colorado River in the 1960s — “nature serves man” went the thinking — helped shape the nation. But now facing a historic drought, all that could be lost in a generation.

Unchecked overuse is draining and damaging aquifers nationwide, a data investigation by the New York Times revealed, threatening millions of people and America’s status as a food superpower.

Shedding its stodgy image, the city has become a destination for start-ups looking for cheaper space and younger workers on the hunt for roomier housing.

“In 2023, Montana homeowners and renters are about to experience the largest property tax increase in history, nearly $200 million, an 18% increase in one year,” said former state Revenue Director Dan Bucks. “That has never happened before.”

Missoula’s parks are full of people in tents, but moving them is hampered by a court ruling that has frustrated many leaders in the American West.

“I hate to say it, it’s Whac-A-Mole. We’ll chase them around and try to figure out solutions for them.”

Homeowners in Colorado mountain valleys are pushing back on local regulations capping and taxing short-term rentals.

Plan for $3.2 billion Deer Valley expansion includes 3,700 new acres of ski terrain plus a village built by the developer of posh New York City residential towers.

Deer Valley Resort announced it will retain its snowboard ban even as the luxe Park City resort expands to the Mayflower property, which will nearly triple its skiable terrain. Here's why.

As the earth roasted last month, reaching a global average temperature that scientists have confirmed to be the highest on record for any month, the Colorado High Country got an uneven sampling of the heat.

Her name will always be tied to one of the landmark environmental decisions of our time. And she wouldn’t change a thing

"The law is starting to catch up with the reality of the climate crisis," one legal observer said.

As the postmortem begins, Colorado River officials and water users say the program should continue even as they wonder if it had enough bang for the buck.

New EPA test results for PFAS “forever chemicals” in drinking water supplies turn up more Colorado communities with contamination problems.

Montana has earmarked $3.7 million to address widespread high levels of lead in school drinking water. But it likely isn’t enough to solve the problem.

The EPA held a public meeting Wednesday night in Butte to discuss the potential use of “onsite material,” or “grey dirt,” as fill at sites slated for Superfund remediation.

Cultivating pollinator support at state parks.