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As salmon disappear, a battle over Alaska Native fishing rights heats...
The salmon shortage has also inflamed a long-simmering legal fight among Native stakeholders, the Biden administration, and the state over who gets to fish on Alaska’s vast federal lands.
After dam removal, Washington state tribe fishes for salmon on Elwha...
For the first time in more than a hundred years, members of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe are fishing for coho salmon on the free-flowing river.
Nearly all Chinook Salmon in Sacramento River expected to be killed...
"It's an extreme set of cascading climate events pushing us into this crisis situation."
5 things to know about the fate of wild salmon
Historical pressures combined with new threats from climate change have pushed more than a dozen species close to extinction.
Federal court rules against FDA’s approval of genetically engineered salmon
"Today’s victory will stop FDA from green-lighting such dangerous technologies without fully considering their environmental risks.”
Toxic Alaska mine could ‘destroy the world’s last great sockeye salmon...
The massive Pebble Mine project is back in play after Alaska’s governor met with President Donald Trump.
Hidden Trump report reveals water plan will harm endangered whales and...
It's become a familiar story with the Trump administration: Scientists write a report that shows the administration's policies will cause environmental damage,...
Trump administration lifts ban on GE salmon
The GE salmon could be in grocery stores as soon as 2020.
To Native culture, the salmon decision means more than a treaty...
How indigenous food is tied to important sacred stories.
Supreme Court affirms Native American treaty rights to harvest salmon
The decision upholds 19th century promises and should increase the number of fish for everyone.
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Bernie Sanders condemns CEO killing, calls US health care system ‘broken and cruel’
The killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO has reignited calls for Medicare for All, highlighting public outrage at the U.S. health care system’s inequities and inefficiencies.
$883.7 billion NDAA passed amid Pentagon audit failures and controversial policies
Congress approves $883.7 billion defense budget despite Pentagon’s audit failures and criticism over waste, cultural policies, and misplaced spending priorities.
Elizabeth Warren’s Accountable Capitalism Act: A push for corporate accountability and worker rights
Senator Elizabeth Warren introduced the Accountable Capitalism Act this week, aiming to shift corporate priorities from shareholder profits to equitable treatment of workers and other stakeholders.