Lake Tahoe is the spiritual center of the world to the Washoe people, who are Indigenous to the region, but they have limited access to its shores. A grassroots nonprofit hopes to change that.

Momentum is building toward deployment of respirators to protect wildland firefighters from a long list of toxins. But researchers argue that the workforce's practical concerns would need to be addressed for implementation to be successful.

Brian Fennessy has nearly 50 years of fire experience, which began in the late 1970s on elite federal hotshot crews and other wildfire teams.

Keystone Resort in Colorado was the first resort in the country to open in 2025, in part due to their emphasis on early-season snowmaking. As climate change amplifies drought in the Mountain West, ski areas across the region are considering how best to use increasingly scarce water resources.

Eighteen cattle ranchers in the Mountain West region are partnering with a carbon credit company to make their land healthier and get extra revenue.

Curbing methane emissions could be the “parachute” needed to slow global warming, said Jacquelyn Francis, founder of Climate Curve. The new prize will be awarded to projects that mitigate emissions of the potent greenhouse gas from agriculture and waste systems.

New research shows that mountain regions around the world are warming faster than the lowlands below them. Scientists say that could have big consequences for the Mountain West, where communities rely on snow and ice for their water supply.

After finally being sworn in following a historic seven-week delay, Arizona Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva is using her first legislative act to fulfill a campaign promise she made to tribes in Arizona and across Indian Country.

The latest in a series of climate lawsuits, ten Utah youth are suing the state over its issuance of fossil fuels permitting, which they say violates their rights to life, safety, and health.

The nonpartisan Center for American Progress found that 31 national monuments are at risk of having protections reduced or revoked under the Trump administration. But that would jeopardize some of the water on those landscapes, which provide drinking water for millions of people.