If you have climbed a peak or hiked in a golden aspen forest, paddled a protected river or visited a cultural site on any of the hundreds of millions of acres of public national forest land, there’s a ...

Madhvi became interested in environmental issues at an early age. When she was 5, she watched a documentary about a Pacific island overrun with trash. Birds and nearby aquatic life fed on the plastic ...

Across the country, Latinos occupy an increasingly sought-after position of influence in the election: swing voters in swing states. In total, an estimated 17.5 million Latinos are expected to vote ...

Located on a former ranch in western Arizona, the hot spring is framed by rolling desert hills. Though trucks may sometimes drive down a nearby dirt road, it’s mostly quiet. That serenity is an ...

The reservoirs were under threat, and had been for decades.

This year marks the centennial of the Indian Citizenship Act, which theoretically gave Native people the right to vote in U.S ...

In Nevada and Arizona, Latinos make up nearly a third of all voters. What are they thinking this election year?

Bernardo Ruiz is a three-time Emmy®-nominated documentary filmmaker and a 2024 documentary film fellow at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. Don’t miss HCN ’s latest on ...

If elected, she would be the first Latina senator to represent Legislative District 14, which, after a contentious redistricting, is majority Latino for the first time. Beltran pointed to a low ...

Ten years after the impasse between the Bundy family and the BLM, the doctrine of white oppression is widely embraced.

From climate and public lands to shifting political allegiances, the region faces critical choices at the ballot box.