Kate Schimel

Friction from the past intensifies in environmentally stressed regions.

A sardonic social media account gains popularity from taking down sacred ski idols and imagining a future without snow.

The director of ‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’ discusses the value of popular media for environmental ends and whether destroying pipelines is an act of self-defense.

A nonprofit independent magazine of unblinking journalism that shines a light on all of the complexities of the West.

A nonprofit independent magazine of unblinking journalism that shines a light on all of the complexities of the West.

Notes on what is fluid and flowing, even if ephemeral.

A nonprofit independent magazine of unblinking journalism that shines a light on all of the complexities of the West.

In October, a man opened fire at Umpqua Community College in Oregon, leaving 10 dead.

Five stories we think you should make time for.

A federal report had called for a reckoning for a century and half of removing Native children from their families. The U.S. government hopes to assuage cynicism and begin a new chapter of healing for Native people.