When Oregon’s short legislative session convenes in early February, conservation advocates will once again try to convince lawmakers to pass a major funding bill that could provide nearly $30 million ...

The film adaptation of Denis Johnson’s novella, Train Dreams, reflects the beauty, and heartache, of working in the forests of the Pacific Northwest.

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

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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 ...

Alka Tripathy-Lang is a geologist and science writer based in Chandler, Arizona.

Jovelle Tamayo is a Filipinx American documentary photographer and visuals editor based in Seattle, Washington.

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