Company can begin to issue plans for drilling near Chaco Canyon buffer zone on Navajo Nation allotment.
Days before Trump took office, Interior approved oil and gas leases for land bought during 2019 public auction
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The Indian education of Charles Sams
How the first Native director of the National Park Service drew from a legacy of federal boarding schools and Indigenous teachings.
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The possibilities of climate grief
A journey through the heart of despair to find what’s on the other side.
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These states use stolen Indigenous land to fund prisons
State trust lands generate millions of dollars for carceral facilities and programs every year, largely from extractive industries like oil and gas drilling.
Posted inFebruary 2025: Immigrant Stories
Reenvisioning the image of immigration
Artist and refugee Papay Solomon juxtaposes European painting with African ancestry.
Posted inFebruary 2025: Immigrant Stories
A veteran transforms a legacy of violence into a campaign for restoration
How a former Marine found a road to repair.
Posted inFebruary 2025: Immigrant Stories
The climate fight endures
Despite a hostile administration, local governments in the West recognize the need to
continue the energy transition, and they have plans.
Posted inFebruary 2025: Immigrant Stories
Bringing black abalone back from the brink
To save the species, researchers translocated the endangered California mollusk.
Posted inFebruary 2025: Immigrant Stories
The power of prescribed fire
A wildfire journalist steps behind the drip torch.
Posted inFebruary 2025: Immigrant Stories
How do we raise our children in a time of wildfire?
The poet Rachel Richardson learns, through writing and motherhood, to defy fear.
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A writer finds freedom in being unapologetically Indigenous
On strengthening roots in a new place.
Posted inFebruary 2025: Immigrant Stories
‘If we center Indigenous birthing people as the standard for protection, then everybody’s protected’
#iamthewest: Giving voice to the people that make up communities in the region.
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There’s more than one kind of migrant
Like LA’s new climate refugees, immigrants also deserve respect.
Posted inFebruary 2025: Immigrant Stories
Orcas à la mode, totally tubular sea pickles and bloodthirsty squirrels
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
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What are you reading?
When finding news consumption difficult, connect with community.
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Many renters are struggling after fleeing LA County wildfires
For many in the county, recovery requires a new lease, a new landlord, new schools and possibly a new state.
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Uranium trucks on Arizona’s ‘Killer 89’ spark alarm in tribal communities
White Mesa residents say they’d be last to know about accidents despite being closest to danger.
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‘They’ll have to drag me out before I go.’ EPA workers stand firm despite Trump chaos
Staff outside D.C. headquarters respond to funding freeze and other orders from the new administration.