An urban geologist goes to downtown Seattle and finds a rangeof rocks rivaling any assembled by plate tectonics.

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 ...

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

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.

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.

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 ...

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

Dillon Osleger is a writer and public lands policy analyst whose work is grounded in a decade of hands-on trail restoration across the West. His first book, Trail Work, published by Heyday Books, ...

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.

In its first year, the second Trump administration has rolled back protections across a swath of high-profile public lands in Alaska.