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Trump Eyes Mining of Pacific Seafloor Near the Marianas Trench

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration is expanding its deep-sea mining ambitions to the region around the Marianas Trench in the western Pacific, and is nearly doubling the proposed seabed mining area around American Samoa from 18 million acres to 33 million acres, an area […]

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Donald Trump’s Dream of an Alaskan Oil Boom Is Feeling More Like a Bust

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As Kristen Moreland waited for the livestream to buffer, her thoughts drifted to the years she’d devoted to defending Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the northeastern sweep of Alaska where the mountains give way to the coastal plain. On screen, the chatter […]

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These Native Kids Were First to Witness the Mighty Klamath River’s Rebirth

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Ruby Williams’s pink kayak pierced the fog shrouding the mouth of the Klamath River, and she paddled harder. She was flanked on both sides by fellow Indigenous youth from across the basin, and their line of brightly colored boats […]

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Julian Brave NoiseCat’s New Book Explores Indigenous Life, Death, and Survival

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In May 2021, ground-penetrating radar detected more than 200 unmarked graves of Indian children near the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia, Canada. The discovery prompted US Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland to announce the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative, an investigative review of the legacy of Indian boarding schools in the United […]

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Online Sales Are Transforming the Market for Native Artists

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When Marlo Kiyite was 19 and pregnant with her second son, she and her husband, Fitz, moved in with her cousin in Gallup, New Mexico, trying to make ends meet. Her cousin was an artist, a well-known carver of pocket-­sized animals that the Zuni Pueblo call fetishes, and one day, she suggested ­Kiyite give it […]

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Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border

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This story was originally published by Canada’s National Observer and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Just west of Fort Qu’Appelle in Saskatchewan, the Standing Buffalo Dakota Nation is working across the US border to revive centuries-old trade routes as part of a new Indigenous-governed trade corridor.  Trucks from the First Nation could soon be […]

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A Baby Adopted, a Family Divided

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In 2017, David Leavitt drove to the Northern Cheyenne reservation in Montana to adopt a baby girl. A few years later, during an interview with a documentary filmmaker, Leavitt, a wealthy Utah politician, told a startling story about how he went about getting physical custody of that child.  Subscribe to Mother Jones podcasts on Apple […]

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Florida Tribe Joins the Fight Against “Alligator Alcatraz”

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Miccosukee Tribe in Florida joined environmental groups on Tuesday to sue the federal and state agencies that constructed an immigrant detention center known as the “Alligator Alcatraz” and located in the Everglades National Park.  In a motion to join a lawsuit, […]

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Miccosukee Tribe Champions Conservation Effort to Secure Florida’s Wild Lands

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Almost two centuries ago, Native American tribe members sought the protection of Florida’s Everglades during the Seminole wars as they hid from government forces seeking to banish them to Indian territories that later became Oklahoma. Now, as the Trump administration continues its wholesale slashing of federal funding from conservation projects, the Miccosukee Tribe is stepping up to […]

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Klamath River Reborn: A Journey Through America’s Largest Dam Removal Project

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Bill Cross pulled his truck to the side of a dusty mountain road and jumped out to scan a stretch of rapids rippling through the hillsides below. As an expert and a guide, Cross had spent more than […]

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Trump’s Funding Cuts Leave Alaska Native Village in the Dark, Stalling Clean Energy Dreams

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For the fewer than a hundred people that make up the entire population of Port Heiden, Alaska, fishing provides both a paycheck and a full dinner plate. Every summer, residents of the Alutiiq village set out on commercial boats to […]

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