This year, the 2025 Sundance Institute Native Lab was held at the Picuris Pueblo-owned Hotel Santa Fe in Santa Fe, where the Native Lab relocated in 2015. Indigenous program director Adam Piron (Kiowa ...

The 8-0 decision overturned the U.S. Court of Appeals decision that the project’s environmental impact statement was insufficient.

Lisa Sorg is the North Carolina reporter for Inside Climate News. A journalist for 30 years, Sorg covers energy, climate environment and agriculture, as well as the social justice impacts of pollution ...

Thirty-seven wolves died in Washington in 2024, including four killed for preying on livestock, one by a cougar, one dying ...

Marie Gluesenkamp Perez’ ‘Blue Dog’ strategy of appealing to working-class rural moderates won her a long-held Republican district.

Joseph O’Sullivan is Crosscut’s former state politics reporter. Before joining Crosscut in 2022, O’Sullivan spent nearly eight years as Olympia bureau reporter for The Seattle Times. High Country News ...

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Joan Naviyuk Kane’s poetry collections include The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife, Hyperboreal, Milk Black Carbon, and Dark Traffic. A 2025 USA Fellow, she recently co-edited Circumpolar Connections: ...

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Amid massive rollbacks of federal environmental protections, a community battling the expansion of a local landfill seeks to safeguard its own backyard – and everyone else’s.

HCN prides itself on delving into messy news stories, and in this issue, we do so quite literally, digging into the garbage business via a controversial proposed landfill in Oregon. Life at the Forest ...

Lisa Elmaleh is an analog photographer, teacher and humanitarian. She has been active in the migrant justice community since 2020 and is the recipient of a 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship. High Country ...