How the first Native director of the National Park Service drew from a legacy of federal boarding schools and Indigenous ...

Researchers from the University of California, Santa Cruz and NOAA Fisheries search for black abalone along the Dangermond Preserve coastline in central California in October. Credit: Florence ...

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The Dance to the Top of the Palm Tree, Bright Ntimba, Part I. 2021, oil on linen, 45 x 80 inches. Credit: Papay Solomon ...

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California Proposition 4 will continue to help fund projects related to climate change, including beach restoration projects like this one in San Clemente. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images ...

Small patches of fire slowly merge during a prescribed burn in northeastern Washington. Credit: Kara Karboski/Washington Resource Conservation & Development Sweat dripped down my spine as I hefted ...

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