People & Population

"In the Pacific north-west, local people work the shoreline, creating conditions for useful species to thrive".

"More than 1 million disaster-related displacements have occurred each year on average in the U.S. since 2016. Some people never return home."

"“When I was a kid, my parents were growing no rice; all the rice had vanished,” says Hardeeville, South Carolina horticulturist Rollen Chalmers with a soft lilt to his voice. Though the generations-deep Gullah tradition of growing rice had faded by the time Chalmers was growing up, he tapped into his family’s experience later in life."

"Millions will be displaced. Where will they go?"

"On a cool February morning, around 60 people gathered in the Sierra Nevada foothills to take part in a ceremony that, for many decades, was banned."

"Along Lake Michigan’s shores, rising waters are eroding Indigenous Odawa burial sites".

"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that American Indians and Alaska Natives have a COVID-19 infection rate 3.5 times than white people and younger Native people are more affected."

"Wildfires raced toward populated areas of Northern California's wine country, as dozens of blazes burned in other parts of the state."

"The Trump administration’s effort to open up drilling across more than a million acres in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) faces significant legal hurdles, according to experts who are likely to assist in challenging the newly announced plan.

The Interior Department on Monday finalized plans to move ahead with a longstanding item on the GOP’s wishlist: allowing drilling in the Alaskan wilderness. The move could have dire consequences for polar bears, caribou, birds and other species that live in the coastal area in the northern part of ANWR.