Days after President Joe Biden gave his farewell address to the nation on Jan. 15, the Bureau of Land Management approved oil ...

Chad Bradley is the Indigenous Affairs fellow at High Country News. They write from the Southwest and are a member of the Navajo Nation. Sign up to receive High Country News ’ email newsletters and ...

How the first Native director of the National Park Service drew from a legacy of federal boarding schools and Indigenous ...

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

State trust lands generate millions of dollars for carceral facilities and programs every year, largely from extractive ...

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 ...

Despite a hostile administration, local governments in the West recognize the need to continue the energy transition, and they have plans.

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

I GOT INTO the environmental restoration business by accident. After military tours at sea and in Iraq as a Marine grunt and sniper, I demobilized back to Salt Lake City, where my family had relocated ...

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 ...