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Wild Rice Faces Numerous Threats—and Has Determined Protectors

Groups work to identify, save and reseed areas to help the culturally significant resource thrive as climate change portends more strains.

By Susan Cosier

Harvey Goodsky Jr. and his wife Morningstar harvest wild rice on Minnesota’s Rice Lake in September 2017. Credit: Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune via Getty Images
Bison graze at the Wind River Tribal Buffalo Initiative in Wyoming. Credit: Michael Kodas/Inside Climate News

New BLM Grazing Rules Eliminate Tribal Buffalo From Public Lands

By Blaine Harden

Beds are seen inside the Alligator Alcatraz migrant detention center in Ochopee, Fla., on July 1, 2025. Credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

Florida to Close Alligator Alcatraz, News Report Says

By Amy Green

Scott Schuyler of the Upper Skagit Indian Tribe negotiated with Seattle City Light for nearly a decade to hammer out an agreement for fish passage around three dams on the Skagit River. Credit: Blaine Harden/Inside Climate News

After a Century Powering Its Growth With Dams, Seattle Settles With Tribes That Lost Their River

By Blaine Harden

Alannah Hurley, executive director of the United Tribes of Bristol Bay, is the winner of the 2026 Goldman Environmental Prize for North America. Credit: Goldman Environmental Prize

Inside the Indigenous Fight to Save Alaska’s Bristol Bay

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

Graves mark the site of the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, where U.S. troops killed more than 250 Lakota men, women and children. Credit: Carla Samon Ros/CJI

How the Rush to Mine the Metal of the Future Echoes America’s Colonial Past

By Johanna Hansel, Carla Samon Ros, Wyatt Myskow

People walk near the front entrance to Alligator Alcatraz in the Florida Everglades on April 22. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

In Florida, Alligator Alcatraz Remains Open Among Sacred Miccosukee Lands

By Amy Green

Tony and Carra Harris at the Cherokee Garden outside Atlanta. Credit: Ryan Krugman/Inside Climate News

The Cherokee Rose, Georgia’s State Flower, Actually Has Nothing to Do With the Cherokee People—or the State

By Ryan Krugman

Paraecologists Olger Kitiar (left) and Jhostin Antún eagerly check a camera trap tucked into the forest on Maikiuants territory on Nov. 29, 2025.

In the Fight to Defend the Amazon, This Indigenous Community’s Secret Weapon Is Science

Story and photos by Katie Surma

Oil pipelines stretch across the landscape outside Nuiqsut, Alaska, where ConocoPhillips operates the Alpine Field. Credit: Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Trump Administration Auctions Contested Arctic Lands for Oil Drilling

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Upper Skagit Tribal members harvest Baker River sockeye salmon at the Skagit River confluence in Washington. Credit: Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission

Habitat Loss Is Eroding Tribal Sovereignty

By Johnny Sturgeon

Waorani Indigenous leaders protest oil exploitation in Yasuni National Park in front of Quito’s Constitutional Court on Aug. 20, 2025. Credit: Rodrigo Buendia/AFP via Getty Images

The Latest Tactic for Silencing Ecuador’s Environmental Defenders: Shuttering Their Bank Accounts

By Katie Surma

Caribou graze by a portion of the Trans Alaska Pipeline System near the Dalton Highway on May 9, 2025, in Alaska’s North Slope. Credit: Lance King/Getty Images

Expanded Arctic Drilling Faces a Wave of Lawsuits

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Sections of the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline are seen at a construction site in Park Rapids, Minn., in 2021. Credit: Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images

New EPA Proposal Would Strip States’ and Tribes’ Authority to Block Oil and Gas Pipelines, Other Infrastructure Projects

By Teresa Tomassoni

Ned Tapa, a Māori leader, paddles down the Whanganui River in New Zealand. Credit: Richard Sidey

‘I Am the River’: How Indigenous Knowledge Reshaped New Zealand’s Law

By Katie Surma

A young Venezuelan miner works in an open pit mine in search of gold in El Callao, Venezuela, on Aug. 29, 2023. Credit: Magda Gibelli/AFP via Getty Images

Trump Wants to Accelerate Extraction in Venezuela. So Do Drug Trafficking Organizations.

By Katie Surma

Love Sanchez, founder of Indigenous People of the Coastal Bend, stands at McGee Beach near downtown Corpus Christi in 2022. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Indigenous Groups Fight to Save Rediscovered Settlement Site on an Industrial Waterfront in Texas

By Dylan Baddour

Donald Moncayo, president of the Union of Peoples Affected by Chevron-Texaco, walks toward a gas flare in the Ecuadorian Amazon region. Credit: Katie Surma/Inside Climate News

Latest Twist in Chevron’s Amazon Pollution Saga: Ecuador Ordered to Pay the Oil Company $220 Million

By Katie Surma

Fire burns through leaves as a prescribed burn takes place at High Park in Toronto. Credit: Lance McMillan/Toronto Star via Getty Images

How Indigenous Cultural Burns Can Help Heal Climate-Ravaged Forests—and People

Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, Living on Earth

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