An investigation by High Country News and Grist reveals how public institutions benefit from extractive industries on Indian reservations.

The corner of a recently logged state trust land parcel is visible on the Flathead Reservation. Credit: Tailyr Irvine / High Country News and Grist This investigation is a collaboration with Grist. On ...

Arizona’s state fish is doing well but faces a daunting future.

During the final season of Reservation Dogs — an Indigenous coming-of-age show set on the Muscogee Reservation in Oklahoma — ...

The truth is, we all rely on public officials to keep us safe. And yet, the degree of protection they provide can, and does, ...

Isobel Whitcomb is an award-winning journalist based in Portland, Oregon. Their work covering environmental justice and conservation appears in Sierra Magazine, Scientific American, Atmos Magazine and ...

After 82 years, in June of this year, the Department of Interior published Historic and Ongoing Impacts of Federal Dams on the Columbia River Basin Tribes, an analysisthat explores how 11 hydropower ...

Anthony J. Wallace is a journalist from Phoenix, Arizona, who has reported on the Venezuelan diaspora across Latin America and the U.S. His writing and audio documentary work has been published by the ...

Where they remain, western bumblebees — or females, at least — are easy to identify: They’re the only bumble in the West with a distinctively fuzzy white rump. Males and females both forage, but only ...

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