Climate change is creating a mental health crisis in Phoenix. A budding movement in the desert might solve it.

Reclaiming Chinese culture through cultivation.

Tourist-tossing season is officially underway at Yellowstone National Park, commencing with a resident bison versus a 47-year-old Cape Coral, Florida, man on May 4 in the Lake Village area of the park ...

IN THE HOT SUMMER months in the Mountain West, from July into late summer, the hard winters pay off. You can almost forget that spring is short, and the growing season is over so quickly. You can ...

Scientists in the United States tend to avoid activism; many fear that wading into politics will undermine their work and compromise their independence. Others worry that engaging in protest or ...

The result is a patchwork of laws protecting the nation’s wetlands. But if more Western states were to emulate their neighbors’ efforts and take action, millions of acres of wetlands could be saved, ...

The HCN staff has been out connecting with readers and making new friends around the region as spring melts into summer.

Paige Hill Starzinger’s Vortex Street (2020) was short-listed for the Eric Hoffer Grand Prize in Poetry. Her first book, Vestigial (2013), won the Barrow Street Book Prize, selected by Lynn Emanuel.

This article appeared in the July 2025 print edition of the magazine with the headline “#IAMTHEWEST.” ...

Bethany Kaylor is a writer and illustrator living in Iowa City. She’s currently an MFA candidate in nonfiction at the University of Iowa, where she’s working on a book about subcultures.

Los científicos en los Estados Unidos tienden a evitar el activismo; muchos temen que meterse en la política subestime su trabajo y comprometa su independencia. A otros les preocupa que participar en ...

Natalie Behring is a photojournalist in Victor, Idaho . Her reporting is focused on covering the rural American West.