This story was produced by Public Domain and Fieldnotes and is co-published here by permission. On April 23, 2025, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s aide received a text message from an employee at ...

Small towns in the Permian Basin have become a petri dish for the perils of living amid the nation’s largest oil fields.

Everything from sand to summer vacations is projected to change in the Grand Canyon as the river’s flows are reduced.

Construction of the Edward Hyatt Powerplant, located near Oroville Dam in Butte County, California. The State Water Project facility, completed in 1967, maximized power production through a ...

Discussions around the Painted Desert Power project, a large-scale solar project, have drawn attention to much broader ...

The mystery behind the eerie sounds coming from a hillside near the town of Weed in Siskiyou County, California, was finally solved, and the solution turned out to be “stranger and gentler than the ...

An art exhibit centers LGBTQ+ magic and spirituality as an useful reminder of how queer people fought oppression and formed community in the past.

Stan Kroenke doesn’t need federal help to make a business flourish. He is worth an estimated $20 billion, a fortune that has allowed him to become one of America’s largest property owners and afforded ...

This article is co-published with Public Domain. On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order singling out the state of Alaska and its abundant stores of oil, gas and ...

Ryan Christopher Jones is a photojournalist and anthropologist. He is currently completing a Ph.D. in anthropology at Harvard University, where he is writing a dissertation on the community politics ...

Stephanie Casanova is a Report for America corps member covering environmental justice and the Colorado River for Arizona Luminaria. Stephanie’s reporting position is part of HCN's Western ...