What Project 2025 has to say about Native communities
Oct 29, 2024 · Fort Yuma Quechan Indian Tribe Councilman Donald Medart joins members of Congress, tribal leaders and community advocates at a rally in Washington, D.C., this April to urge the Biden ...
The Supreme Court decisions that gutted environmental …
Dec 19, 2024 · In recent years, U.S. Supreme Court decisions have undercut federal agencies’ ability to curb pollution and fight climate change. Several cases decided in 2024 continued this trend ...
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After the Klamath River dams came down, salmon came back
Nov 29, 2024 · The return of salmon restores an integral part of river-based communities — both human and ecological. Vegetation restoration has centered native plants and streamside resiliency (left).
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The Forest Service is cutting its seasonal workforce and public …
Oct 8, 2024 · This story was produced in collaboration with Vox.. Americans visit hiking and camping areas managed by the U.S. Forest Service more than 150 million times each year.
The ways Afro-Indigenous people are asked to navigate their …
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My family experienced Indian boarding schools – and genocide
Nov 20, 2024 · Yet, over the past 10 years, many historians and Indigenous scholars have said that what happened at the Indian boarding schools “meets the definition of genocide.” From the 19th to 20th ...
Migrating birds find refuge in pop-up habitats
Oct 11, 2024 · Tens of thousands of birds crowd a recently flooded rice field in Wilson, California, last October. Birds identified at the field included geese, blackbirds, ibis, gulls, cranes and starlings.
What Denali’s road closure means for its wildlife
Sep 1, 2024 · Denali’s latest travel restriction, though, wasn’t planned. In 2014, a slow-motion landslide at a spot called Pretty Rocks, around 45 miles down the road, began to accelerate.