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 ...
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 ...
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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.
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 ...
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.
7 questions about Freedmen answered - High Country News
Oct 11, 2021 · After more than a century of disenfranchisement, Freedmen are gaining ground. Earlier this week, journalist Allison Herrera reported that the Indian Health Service has decided that Seminole ...
The aftermath of the Hermit’s Peak and Calf Canyon Fires
Dec 1, 2024 · Rising above 10,000 feet, Hermit’s Peak is part of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, the southern sub-range of the Rockies. I was 11 and my sister, Katie, was 9 when we first hiked up it.
The future of renewables in Arizona hinges on voters
Oct 17, 2024 · The Arizona Corporation Commission has come under scrutiny for its continued support of fossil fuels and resistance to supporting more solar in the state. Three seats could make the difference.