The Yakama Nation is fighting a pumped hydro storage development near Goldendale, Washington – but it’s just one of many.
Social Justice
Planning for the future of groundwater also offers an opportunity to plan for climate justice.
Denver’s Lisa Reyes Mason leads a new generation of social workers in helping communities adapt to the climate crisis.
At the U.N., leaders describe the destruction of Indigenous sacred sites as a ‘major human rights violation.’
Many have moved to the nation’s fastest growing city seeking community as well as a better life. Few are finding it.
Kelley Coleman’s 9-year-old son had two days of his medication left. Then the evacuation order hit.
A perspective on the impacts of storms for people with disabilities.
With a little help from our friends, HCN untangles the complexities of the U.S.-Mexico border.
LA activists are wielding black walnut protections to stop development.
Breaking down population’s role in the environmental impact equation.
Earl Tulley fought for justice for the Navajo communities harmed by uranium mining. Then he found a lump in his jaw.
A conversation with award-winning poet Nico Wilkinson.
Reproductive rights are in the hands of the states — and their voters.
En Arizona, los residentes de casas rodantes son más propensos a morir de calor excesivo.
Arizona’s mobile-home residents are far more likely to die from excessive heat.
Amid a shortage of forensic pathologists, Arizona’s Pima County has identified thousands of those who lost their lives in the Borderlands.
‘Even though we’re the ones speaking up, the only landscape we know is something dead.’
California farmworkers and their advocates walked 335 miles to the state’s capitol in support of voting protections.
A new study warns that California’s groundwater regulations could create more dust, worsening already poor air quality.
In northern Arizona and southern Utah, shared experiences of the boarding school round-ups live with survivors to this day.
If you’re getting out into nature, do right by the land and each other.
Number one: Why are Indians spray-painting my Starbucks?
Chi’chil Biłdagoteel exemplifies the larger struggle tribes face over protecting off-reservation, culturally important lands.
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