Western states were using funds from the Infrastructure Act to clean up pollution left behind by industry. Now, the Trump ...

Volunteers sacrifice time, energy and money to help mustangs removed from the range find homes. Can they convince people to take them?

U.S. Forest Service stock animals are indispensable to trail work on public lands in the West. Trump’s radical upheaval is accelerating the death of a dying art.

They soon learned that the institution was notorious for refusing to return Indigenous items, in open violation of NAGPRA. “The problem with NAGPRA was that it had no teeth,” said Gonzalez. The ...

In August 2023, the judge ruled against the state, which appealed to the Montana Supreme Court. When the court affirmed the ruling in December, Held became the first case in the country in which youth ...

With climate change threatening Indigenous lifeways in Alaska, these four young women are devoting their careers to their preservation.

Making a home is a journey across time and space. At first, I heard the noises at night — a stairstep creaking, the rattle of a window, soft skittering across the floor. In bed, I would lie awake in ...

Cheaper renewables and natural gas began edging out nuclear generation; the San Onofre nuclear plant near San Diego shut down in 2012, and Diablo Canyon near San Luis Obispo was slated for retirement ...

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And yet, in just its first 60 days, the second Trump administration has managed to outdo them all, launching an unmitigated assault on democracy, the rule of law, public lands, the federal government ...