As the use of native plants becomes more widespread, Indigenous communities could lose out.
Social justice
Posted inApril 2024: Epic Journeys
Youth are leading the way on climate action
Start thinking like young people to secure our future.
Posted inArticles
California’s transgender Latinx people find refuge and empowerment in community
‘We are beginning to have that safety that we always desired.’
Posted inArticles
Who are the real Black superheroes?
A photo exhibition captures the courage of Mamie Till surrounding the lynching of her son, Emmett Till.
Posted inArticles
Fighting climate change by fighting racism
Hop Hopkins, the new executive director of WildEarth Guardians, explains how the two movements are connected.
Posted inArticles
Washington’s controversial cap-and-trade program, explained. Really.
It’s hailed as the strongest in the nation, but will it reduce carbon pollution equitably?
Posted inArticles
What rural homelessness looks like
The lessons learned after spending months embedded with unhoused communities in Oregon.
Posted inMarch 2024: Fertile Ground
An ode to lesbians who showed the way
The photography series ‘Hidden Once, Hidden Twice’ highlights women who serve as a model for others.
Posted inArticles
A proposed bottle-deposit bill in Washington would help the environment — and low-income communities
The legislation would add a premium for bottles returned by organizations supporting people who rely on deposit refunds.
Posted inArticles
Stolen Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system. Climate change is its legacy.
Extractive industries are filling public university coffers on stolen land.
Posted inArticles
New DNA technique could bring closure for families of missing and murdered Indigenous people
But experts say this risks DNA sovereignty.
Posted inJanuary 11, 2024: The Creatures in Our Midst
The Northwestern Shoshone are restoring the Bear River Massacre site
The tribe is reclaiming their gathering place and returning water to the Great Salt Lake.
Posted inJanuary 11, 2024: The Creatures in Our Midst
Washington’s solar permitting leaves tribal resources vulnerable to corporations
Tribal officials say the process threatens cultural resources and what remains of healthy Indigenous foodways.
Posted inArticles
In Northern California, Asian residents say they are being targeted by traffic stops
The Siskiyou County sheriff’s department has been accused of racial profiling in the past.
Posted inArticles
Nyob Rau Qaum Teb California, Cov pej xeem Esxias hais tias tub ceev xwm tsom lawv tib co neeg dub hau nres nram kev xwb
Siskiyou County Lub Hoob Kas Tub Ceev Xwm raug liam los lawm hais tias lawv tsom lwm haiv neeg xwb.
Posted inArticles
Climate litigation to watch in 2024
These court cases could move the needle on the climate crisis.
Posted inArticles
Washington works to reconcile its history of Indigenous boarding schools
An all-Indigenous committee will identify the state’s responsibility of rectifying harm caused to boarding school survivors and their descendants.
Posted inArticles
First direct cash assistance program exclusively for Indigenous parents launched
The Nest, a Washington nonprofit program, seeks to serve Native people during and after pregnancy.
Posted inArticles
Report finds Arizona 911 dispatchers fail to help lost migrants
Pima County emergency services engage in ‘unconstitutional and abusive practices’ on the border, a humanitarian group says.
Posted inNovember 1, 2023: November 1, 2023
California’s affordable housing contested under the guise of environmentalism
In Eureka, the California Environmental Quality Act is used to target projects that benefit low-income people.