No matter the distance, helping one’s Indigenous community during a disaster is possible.

Scientist activists aren’t new. But the climate crisis and the Trump attacks make them more needed than ever.

Climate change is creating a mental health crisis in Phoenix, especially for Black residents. A budding movement might help address both issues.

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As of July 1, the Oak Ridge Fire on the Navajo Nation in Arizona burns nearly 10,000 acres as hundreds are forced to evacuate. Earlier this year, we wrote about how tribal wildfire programs in the West are underfunded and overburdened.

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The rural healthcare shortage has hit some tribal nations especially hard. One tribe in Nevada has found a solution: a doctor’s office on wheels.

As cost of living rises, finding new forms of housing is key to countering narratives that blame immigrants for scarcity.

Utah launched a sophisticated campaign to sway public opinion of public land transfers, painting the federal government as an absentee landlord cutting off access.

It seems as though the urge to kill wolves and run from them in fear is part of a deeper problem. The same voice that would say that the only good Indian is a dead Indian is the one that says the only good wolf is a dead wolf.

Trump’s decision halted a government-wide initiative to restore abundant salmon runs in the Columbia and Snake rivers and signaled an end to the government’s willingness to consider removing dams that blocked their free flow.

New Mexico’s legislators are eager to repurpose “produced water,” but environmental organizations say that there is no safe way to do that.

The Trump administration’s recent orders are rewriting how history is told at national parks.

The Republican congressional proposals to sell off huge swaths of public land for housing would threaten tribal nations’ constitutional and treaty rights, experts say.

Trump is on a multipronged mission to eliminate a science agency that conservationists, toxicologists, universities and more call irreplaceable.

Public-land lovers might want to focus on the nearly 2 million acres that would likely hit the auction block within weeks if the bill became law.

Protests over the sell off of public lands were hard loud and bipartisan at a gathering of the Western Governors’ Association