Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is looking into new rules for trains. Trucks, however, are involved in thousands more hazmat incidents every year in the US.

Lake Powell’s existential crisis is a unique opportunity to save a treasured landscape.

More homes are burning in wildfires in nearly every Western state. The reason? Humans.

Stemming the water crisis in the western US will require cities and rural areas to work together to make water use on farms – the largest source of demand – more efficient.

La Niña is only part of the problem. The long-term driver of increasing drought – even in areas getting more rainfall overall – is the rapidly warming climate.

The Colorado River provides water and electricity to 40 million people in the western U.S., but falling water levels threaten both of those resources.