Ideas

Disability is too often left out of the conversation about equity and inclusion in the outdoors. We can change that.

Looking back at environmental loss — and more than a few successes — helps us look ahead to healing the planet.

Thousands of people stood up for these at-risk species, proof that we must combine science with an ethic of restraint enforced by public outcry.

A new book investigates the toxic legacy of Hanford, the Washington state facility that produced plutonium for nuclear weapons.

Rampant illegal trade is pushing the blue tree monitor lizard toward extinction. These steps can help save it.

Subsidized water cultivated the West, but this required becoming increasingly profligate with the region’s scarcest resource.

The annual Black Friday ode to commercialism and overconsumption sits at the core of our ongoing destruction of Earth’s ecosystems. We can flip the script.

The midterms may have avoided a red wave, but there’s still blood (and some anti-science conspiracy theorists) in the water.

Black people like nature, too. But you wouldn’t know it from looking at outdoor magazines — at least not before Outdoor Afro got started.

Disadvantaged communities have suffered disproportionately from underinvestment in clean and affordable water. That could change with legislation passed last year.