Topic: Public Lands & Resources

A dispatch from the ongoing war on America’s public lands.

The National Parks Conservation Association's new report recommends mitigating pollution and transitioning to clean energy, with an emphasis on fair solutions.

Westminster, Colorado's focus on taming water demand has become a regional model for managing growth without straining resources.

The Imperial Irrigation District in California has sued to halt the plan, arguing that it wrongly ignores the Salton Sea.

Warren's plan includes ending fossil fuel drilling on public lands, eliminating entrance fees for national parks, and mandating spending for the Land and Water Conservation Fund.

In two new executive orders, Trump seeks to expand executive power over pipelines and make it harder for states to block oil and gas projects.

The administration's latest target: research centers known as Landscape Conservation Cooperatives.

The #trashtag challenge inspired people to clean up beaches, parks, rivers, or just random trash strewn on the street.

Rather than list the bird as an endangered species, the Obama administration struck a compromise deal with energy companies—and now Trump is undoing it.

Last year, a government watchdog report found that about 13 million American children went to schools where officials discovered lead in their drinking water. Now, advocacy groups have graded states' school water policies.

Fights over the Colorado River's most significant tributary are longstanding, intractable, and only getting worse.

As this water emergency quickly becomes a public-health crisis, here's what officials are reporting.

The Brazilian minister of mines and energy stated that Brazil would open its indigenous territories to mining interests without the consent of the affected population.

California's water conservation has seen ups and downs in recent years. Here's what the data shows.

The Trump administration pushed to excise coal deposits from a Utah monument, New York lawmakers want to help minors get vaccinated, and a Navy ship is quarantined at sea.

Instead of one damaged wellhead, a mudslide would leave a tangled mess of pipes buried under a giant mass of sediments.

Though the Trump administration's attempted deep cuts have had historically minimal impact on the agency's budget, they offer further evidence of the Trump administration's lack of concern for federal environmental protection.

As natural gas booms around the Marcellus Shale, nearby residents continue to feel the burden of the industry's growth.

Four wolves were airdropped onto an island where ice bridges no longer allow consistent access to the mainland.

State and federal agencies are warring over who has control of wildlife on public lands, while landscapes get trampled and invasive species obliterate endangered ones.

When will we stop heroizing men for risking the world along with their lives?

The celebrity's foundation will donate water filtration systems to the Michigan city. But what does that say about how the city has handled its water crisis?

A Senate subcommittee is looking into the legality of the decision to tap into the recreation fees for operational costs.

Eucalyptus plantations in southern India that were abandoned and left to recover for nearly 40 years are still far from resembling the primary forest surrounding them.