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![A collage with photos of land (rivers, canyons), a college graduate in cap and gown, and text. The land photos are broken into pieces and moved slightly apart.]()
![A collage with photos of land (rivers, canyons), a college graduate in cap and gown, and text. The land photos are broken into pieces and moved slightly apart.]()
At least 10 states quietly own lands within Indian reservations — and profit from them
Tribal climate action plans are being stymied by state-owned land within reservation borders.
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![German-born American military officer Herbert E Wolff and military personnel of the 84th Engineers Battalion, 45th Support Group, USASCH, each wearing protective yellow coveralls as they watch as hardened concrete mixed with contaminated soil and attapulgite additive being dumped from a 20-ton truck into the crater formed by a nuclear bomb, on the northern tip of Runit Island, one of forty islands of the Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands, 26th July 1978. Runit Island is a dumping ground for radioactive waste left by the United States after it conducted a series of nuclear tests on Enewetak Atoll between '46 and '58. (Photo by Department of Defense/US Army/FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images)]()
![German-born American military officer Herbert E Wolff and military personnel of the 84th Engineers Battalion, 45th Support Group, USASCH, each wearing protective yellow coveralls as they watch as hardened concrete mixed with contaminated soil and attapulgite additive being dumped from a 20-ton truck into the crater formed by a nuclear bomb, on the northern tip of Runit Island, one of forty islands of the Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands, 26th July 1978. Runit Island is a dumping ground for radioactive waste left by the United States after it conducted a series of nuclear tests on Enewetak Atoll between '46 and '58. (Photo by Department of Defense/US Army/FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images)]()
Decades after the US buried nuclear waste abroad, climate change could unearth it
A new report says melting ice sheets and rising seas could disturb waste from U.S. nuclear projects in Greenland and the Marshall Islands.
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![An aerial view of the University of Arizona in Tucson from Getty Images.]()
Cash-strapped University of Arizona says climate action can wait
Activists have spent years pushing the university to divest from fossil fuels. With a $177 million deficit, that may not happen.
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As the Klamath River dries, tribal nations and farmers come to rare agreement
“What’s at stake is our very livelihood, our culture, our identities, our way of life."
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How the US government began its decade-long campaign against the anti-pipeline movement
Newly released documents show the FBI monitoring anti-Keystone protesters much earlier than previously known. Young Native activists were among its first targets.
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Campus divestment activists eye fossil fuel profits on stolen land
Grist investigation reveals 14 land-grant universities making millions off Indigenous land.
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Top 5 takeaways of our investigation into state trust lands
A Grist investigation reveals how 14 public universities continue to benefit from extractive industries on stolen Indigenous land.
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How we investigated the land-grant university system
A methodology of our efforts to reveal how land-grant universities continue to profit from stolen Indigenous resources.
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How to conduct your own reporting and research on state trust lands
A guide to using Grist's database.
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Ignoring Indigenous rights is making the green transition more expensive
“If you’re going to develop energy in the U.S. you’ve got to do it with the support of tribal communities."
