State trust lands generate millions of dollars for carceral facilities and programs every year, largely from extractive industries like oil and gas drilling.

ONE OF THE DIFFICULTIES of being alive on earth in the age of climate catastrophe is that we find ourselves in the peculiar position of mourning the future.

To protect our sacred lands and, at minimum, hold the line on what tribes have fought for (and won), there must be a bold ...

The day after the OMB directive, the EPA complied, cutting off the disbursement of federal funds for all of its programs.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, who was banned from nine tribal reservations, will oversee policies uniquely important to ...

The book and the film used the limits of human bodies to cultivate empathy for the experience of other beings.

To reimagine our relationship with wildfire, we must recognize the real value of federal wildland firefighters — and ...

North Dakota sued the Interior Department at least five times under Gov. Doug Burgum. Now he’s set to run the agency.

He reached into cracks and peered into crevices with a flashlight, hoping to find an endangered marine snail whose shell recently has become California’s state seashell: the black abalone. Seven ...

The county was supposed to conduct an annual tally of people experiencing homelessness this month. Then disaster struck.

Securing any rental in Southern California’s notoriously tight housing market is a feat in the best of times. Staying in that housing long enough to create years of memories, as many families ...

That same day, the Biden administration began the process of withdrawing more than 300,000 acres of public land from new mining claims and mineral leases in the Amargosa Valley in Nevada, protecting ...