This Film Shows What Trump's Wall Would Destroy
If you repeat a word too often, it loses all meaning; it becomes air on your tongue, without texture or a tie to anything real. Now say “the border.” In the past four years, we’ve heard about this...
J. Weston Phippen
Published
Interior's Stealthy Plan to Hide Public Records
The proposed changes would give the agency almost unlimited discretion to deny FOIA requests.
The Forest Service Is the Energy Industry's New Pal
New emails reveal how the U.S. Forest Service easily caved to Dominion Energy in their quest to build a disruptive pipeline along the Appalachian Trail.
A Hiker Is Missing in Mexico's Most Dangerous Mountains
For more than a week now an American hiker has been lost in northern Mexico’s deep Sierra Madre canyons.
Patagonia Endorses Tester and Rosen
In what might be a first for any American company, the clothing brand has endorsed two Senate candidates.
We Might Lose Access to the Zion Narrows Forever
The Zion Narrows is the most popular hike in one of most popular parks in the country.
Congress Is Quietly Eroding the Endangered Species Act
Five bills approved by the House Committee on Natural Resources during a chaotic news cycle could weaken the historically popular environmental law.
Lawsuit Challenges Trump's Potomac Closures
Twenty-five miles northwest of the White House is a two-mile length of the Potomac River where the water relaxes before it crosses an earthen dam near the Seneca Break rapids.
The Daring Rescue that Saved the Thai Soccer Team
A group of the world's best cave divers joined to help save the 12 boys and their coach in one of the most dangerous mission of its kind.
The Terrible State of Our National Parks—in Photos
The government spends a lot of our tax money on things of questionable need. Our public lands, however, are only becoming more loved, more used, and in dire need of repair. Thanks to some photos...
The Thai Soccer Team Trapped in a Cave Was Found Alive
Rescuers spent nine days searching for the 12 boys and their coach. They finally found them two miles deep in the Tham Luang Nang Non cave system.
People Keep Finding Bodies in Joshua Tree
Within a month, the remains of two people—one of them half-buried—were found inside the park's boundaries, a place with a storied relationship to death.
The AT Pipeline Protesters Come Down from the Trees
For three months they defied weather and intermittent sieges on their food supplies by law enforcement. But after Catherine “Fern” MacDougal and a man known only as “Deckard” came down, it seemed...
Why Are NPS Park Police Headed to the Border?
The park police typically help keep the peace at urban monuments, but the Department of Interior is sending a group to the U.S.-Mexico border to chase smugglers. Sort of.
The Deadliest Days on the Alps in Decades
In all, the Italian newspaper La Republica reported that 14 people died during the storm, with victims reported in the Italian, French, and Swiss portions of the Alps.
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