Evan Howell is a Colorado-based journalist covering earth sciences. He holds a master’s degree in geology and spent a decade as a senior geologist. Mysterious driftwood high in Grand Canyon caves ...

Each of these books can, in its own way, teach readers how to think about Earth's history, and how to apply lessons from the past to our future.

Mysterious driftwood high in Grand Canyon caves hints at the legacy of Arizona’s huge impact crater.

Alka Tripathy-Lang is a geologist and science writer based in Chandler, Arizona.

The film adaptation of Denis Johnson’s novella, Train Dreams, reflects the beauty, and heartache, of working in the forests of the Pacific Northwest.

Learning how pronghorn survived the climate changes that ended the ice ages anddrove so many other large mammals to ...

House Democrats are demanding an ethics probe into the high-ranking Interior appointee over her financial ties to the massive ...

The U.S. Senate passed a limited spending package on Thursday that will largely fund several science- and land-related ...

Government-issued maps offer a promise for safely exploring our public lands, but they no longer reflect the reality of what’s actually on the ground.

A year after the Eaton Fire, the recovery maps a familiar inequity. Research from UCLA shows Black homeowners were not just ...

Jovelle Tamayo is a Filipinx American documentary photographer and visuals editor based in Seattle, Washington.

This piece is part of a special project on deep time examining what the Western U.S. was like thousands, millions and even billions of years ago, and how that history is still visible and ...